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Associated Press<\/a> – July 8, 2020<\/p>\n KEY LARGO, Fla.<\/strong> – An 11th case of the mosquito-borned dengue fever has been confirmed in the Florida Keys, health officials said.<\/p>\n So far, all 11 cases have been in Key Largo, including 8 cases the last week of June, the Florida Department of Health officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n Officials are \u201ccurrently conducting epidemiological studies to determine the origin and extent of these infections,\u201d Florida Keys spokeswoman Alison Kerr told the\u00a0Miami Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n The latest patient has been treated and is expected to make a complete recovery, Kerr said.<\/p>\n Health department officials believe all of the cases were locally acquired, the Herald reported.<\/p>\n One case of dengue fever has been confirmed Miami-Dade County, according to health department spokeswoman Olga Connor.<\/p>\n The disease is transmitted through the bite of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, an invasive species that also spreads diseases like yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya.<\/p>\n Symptoms typically appear within 14 days of being bitten and include severe muscle aches and pains, fever and sometimes a rash, according to the health department.<\/p>\n The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District said helicopters and trucks are targeting the adult mosquitoes and larvae, said Chad Huff.<\/p>\n District workers are also doing door-to-door house inspections at homes and businesses in Key Largo to check for adult mosquitoes and larvae.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Associated Press – July 8, 2020 KEY LARGO, Fla. – An 11th case of the mosquito-borned dengue fever has been confirmed in the Florida Keys, health officials said. So far, all 11 cases have been in Key Largo, including 8 cases the last week of June, the Florida Department of Health officials said Tuesday. Officials … Continue reading 11th case of dengue fever confirmed in the Florida Keys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[6048,15081,8059,7511,22,23,9433,15062,1671,15082,42,20],"class_list":["post-18748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-aedes-aegypti-mosquito","tag-alison-kerr","tag-chikungunya","tag-dengue-fever","tag-disease","tag-epidemic","tag-florida-keys","tag-key-largo","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-olga-connor","tag-outbreak","tag-zika"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4So","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18750,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions\/18750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}