{"id":328483,"date":"2026-06-09T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328483\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:21:07","slug":"lubbock-health-officials-warn-of-west-nile-virus-detection-in-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328483\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock health officials warn of West Nile virus detection in mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Health Department is warning of West Nile virus detection in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Biological Threat Research Lab at Texas Tech notified the health department that some mosquitoes have tested positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The virus is picked up by mosquitoes from infected birds and then transmitted to humans through bites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">People 50 and older or those with health issues are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Everyone is encouraged to take steps to reduce bites, including wearing repellent, covering up, limiting outdoor time during dawn and dusk, and getting rid of standing water around homes.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Health Department is warning of West Nile virus detection in the area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[117357,584,168,170,117356,169,107111,1769,10797,375],"class_list":["post-328483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-biological-threat-research-lab-at-texas-tech","tag-health","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-health-department","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mosquitoes","tag-texas-tech","tag-west-nile-virus","tag-west-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}