{"id":300430,"date":"2026-10-05T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:04:35","slug":"new-jersey-confirms-first-west-nile-virus-death-of-2026-new-jersey-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300430\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey confirms first West Nile virus death of 2026 | New Jersey News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW JERSEY &#8211; New Jersey\u2019s Department of Health has confirmed the first death from West Nile virus in the state this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we know.<\/p>\n<p>West Nile is spread through mosquito bites. Health officials say the person who died lived in South Jersey and was over the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p>The person is one of 26 who contracted West Nile virus in New Jersey. About 69% of the confirmed cases are in people 60 or older.<\/p>\n<p>Experts recommend wearing long sleeves and pants and bringing mosquito repellent with you if you&#8217;re going to be outdoors. Avoid being outside between dusk and dawn when the mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus are most active.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the virus and how to prevent it, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/west-nile-virus\/prevention\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CDC\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW JERSEY &#8211; New Jersey\u2019s Department of Health has confirmed the first death from West Nile virus in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,12429,111,48408,1244,42687,93708,915,7340,2303,2140],"class_list":["post-300430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-cdc","tag-death","tag-department-of-health","tag-elderly","tag-infectious-disease","tag-mosquito","tag-new-jersey","tag-prevention","tag-public-health","tag-west-nile-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300430","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=300430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}