{"id":268352,"date":"2026-08-19T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:44:07","slug":"west-nile-virus-found-in-lower-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268352\/","title":{"rendered":"West Nile Virus Found In Lower Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No human cases of West Nile Virus have been reported in Eastern Pennsylvania this year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/west-nile-virus\/data-maps\/current-year-data.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CDC data<\/a>. But the mosquito-borne illness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/dep\/programs-and-services\/bureau-of-labs\/vector-management\/mosquitoes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has been detected<\/a> in mosquito samples across the region, including 29 in Montgomery County as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had a rainy, hot, and humid summer, and those conditions are just what mosquitoes need to thrive,&#8221; the advisory says. &#8220;While we cannot change the weather, we can take appropriate precautions to protect ourselves from mosquito bites and reduce exposure to West Nile Virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No human cases of West Nile Virus have been reported in Eastern Pennsylvania this year, according to CDC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-268352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}