{"id":117676,"date":"2025-08-29T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:42:08","slug":"officials-detect-west-nile-virus-in-three-rhode-island-towns-and-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117676\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials detect West Nile virus in three Rhode Island towns and cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and Department of Health confirmed detections of West Nile virus in Johnston, East Providence and Cranston. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said other samples collected across the state showed no signs of EEE or additional West Nile virus. <\/p>\n<p>The sample was collected on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s risk for West Nile virus is now high. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and Department of Health confirmed detections of West Nile virus in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[76051,76052,13615,70832,97,76050,880,6208,29897],"class_list":["post-117676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cranston","tag-department-of-environmental-management","tag-department-of-health","tag-east-providence","tag-health","tag-johnston","tag-rhode-island","tag-risk","tag-west-nile-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}