{"id":860739,"date":"2026-09-25T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:52:08","slug":"florida-counties-declare-emergency-over-wildly-unusual-dengue-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/860739\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida counties declare emergency over \u2018wildly unusual\u2019 dengue outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UG43P2I4F5EPPM4BVMPPAL4P6E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Three Florida counties have declared states of emergency as a growing outbreak of dengue has infected hundreds across the state this year.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"L2IMQIBSSJDL3DID5IVB4OTH6M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Hillsborough and Pinellas counties declared states of emergency Thursday, one day after neighboring Pasco County did the same, as officials in the state\u2019s west-central region ramps up efforts to control mosquito populations and curb the spread of the mosquito-borne disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Florida counties have declared states of emergency as a growing outbreak of dengue has infected hundreds across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-860739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860739","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=860739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}