{"id":352135,"date":"2026-06-27T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352135\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:25:09","slug":"houston-areas-second-west-nile-case-confirmed-in-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352135\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-area&#8217;s second West Nile case confirmed in Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/west-nile-harris-county-22268264.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Nile virus<\/a> in Montgomery County this year has been confirmed, the county health department said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Montgomery County Public Health Department said it received confirmation from the Texas Department of State Health Services that a county resident tested positive for the virus. The state&#8217;s first confirmed case of the virus in 2026 was announced in late May and was in Harris County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas has recorded nearly 1,000 cases of the virus in the past five years, according to the DSHS. The virus has caused over 100 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The Montgomery County Public Health Department is urging individuals to cover their skin and wear repellent. The summer season makes individuals more vulnerable to contracting the disease, according to DSHS.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of people infected with the virus, around 80 percent, do not develop symptoms, according to the\u00a0CDC. Around 20 percent of people develop mild illness.\u00a0Elderly individuals and those with underlying medical conditions are more likely to develop severe illness.<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials urge individuals to seek medical attention if they experience high fever, neck stiffness, muscle weakness, confusion or tremors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first case of West Nile virus in Montgomery County this year has been confirmed, the county health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-352135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352135","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=352135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}