{"id":211118,"date":"2012-09-05T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211118"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:49:50","slug":"west-nile-death-confirmed-in-cherokee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211118","title":{"rendered":"West Nile Death Confirmed in Cherokee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=209632\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-209632\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/mosquito9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mosquito\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-209632\" \/><\/a>RUSK \u2014 Health officials confirm the West Nile virus has killed one person in Cherokee County. According to KETK and county spokeswoman Rhonda Jones, authorities were notified of the death on Tuesday. A total of four people have contracted the virus in Cherokee County \u2014 two with West Nile fever and two with West Nile neuroinvasive disease. The patient who died suffered from the latter. Jones says the victim was \u201cimmunocompromised.\u201d The person\u2019s name, age, sex and residence has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of State Health Services is asking the public to be aware of the \u201cFour D\u2019s:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Use insect repellent containing DEET, picaridin or oil of lemon eucalyptus.<br \/>\nDress in long sleeves and long pants when you are outside.<br \/>\nStay indoors at dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are most active.<br \/>\nDrain standing water where mosquitoes breed. Common breeding sites include old tires, flowerpots and clogged rain gutters.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, the only Cherokee County towns to spray for West Nile are Jacksonville and Bullard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSK \u2014 Health officials confirm the West Nile virus has killed one person in Cherokee County. According to KETK and county spokeswoman Rhonda Jones, authorities were notified of the death on Tuesday. A total of four people have contracted the virus in Cherokee County \u2014 two with West Nile fever and two with West Nile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Nile Death Confirmed in Cherokee County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 15:17:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211118"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211332,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211118\/revisions\/211332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}