{"id":880870,"date":"2026-10-13T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880870\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:44:10","slug":"two-north-carolinians-dead-from-west-nile-virus-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880870\/","title":{"rendered":"Two North Carolinians dead from West Nile Virus :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two adults from Central North Carolina have died from the West Nile Virus this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control reports 11 more cases in the state this year.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease expert with Duke Health, said if you get West Nile, you probably won&#8217;t know it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/west-nile-virus\/signs-symptoms\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">symptoms the CDC list<\/a>s are flu-like, such as a fever with headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, or rash.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/west-nile-virus\/prevention\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC<\/a>\u00a0recommends preventing mosquito bites as the best way to protect yourself and loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use an insect repellent, wear loose fitting shirts and pants, and avoid being outside between dusk and dawn when the mosquitoes that spread West Nile virus are most active.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two adults from Central North Carolina have died from the West Nile Virus this year. The Centers for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,29899,29897],"class_list":["post-880870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-mosquitoes","tag-west-nile-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880870","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=880870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}