{"id":726523,"date":"2026-06-26T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726523\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:32:11","slug":"jamestown-canyon-virus-detected-in-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726523\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown Canyon virus detected in Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">WATERBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; For the second year in a row, testing has confirmed a human case of the mosquito-borne illness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/jamestown-canyon-virus\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/jamestown-canyon-virus\">Jamestown Canyon virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Health officials have confirmed to WCAX that a person in Charlotte contracted the virus. Full details on the infection were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2025\/09\/09\/vermonts-1st-human-case-jamestown-canyon-virus-found\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2025\/09\/09\/vermonts-1st-human-case-jamestown-canyon-virus-found\/\">The first human detection of the disease in Vermont was in Windsor County last September.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last year was the first time the state tested mosquitoes for the virus. It was found in mosquitoes in the Rutland, Marshfield, and Whitingham areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most people don\u2019t become ill from Jamestown Canyon virus, but some develop flu-like symptoms or become very sick. Common symptoms include fever, fatigue, and headache.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There is no vaccine or specific treatment for Jamestown Canyon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/prevent-mosquito-bites\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.healthvermont.gov\/disease-control\/mosquito-borne-diseases\/prevent-mosquito-bites\">To cut your risk of mosquito bites<\/a>, officials recommend wearing long sleeves and pants outdoors, limiting time outside at dusk and dawn, and using insect repellent.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; For the second year in a row, testing has confirmed a human case of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[166469,15907,3237,97,2631,5971,46507,32574,3,11901,27076,10641,34752,32294],"class_list":["post-726523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-canyon","tag-care","tag-county","tag-health","tag-human","tag-illness","tag-jamestown","tag-mosquito","tag-news","tag-person","tag-vermont","tag-virus","tag-wcax","tag-windsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726523","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=726523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}