{"id":10674,"date":"2022-05-10T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?page_id=10674"},"modified":"2024-09-04T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:22:23","slug":"mosquito-borne-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/mosquitoes\/mosquito-borne-illnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito-Borne Illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">New Jersey has historically been a state at the forefront of mosquito control efforts. Early plagues of mosquito-borne diseases such as Yellow Fever and malaria drove the discovery that mosquitoes were directly responsible for the transmission of some of the deadliest diseases known to man. Currently, The State of New Jersey surveys and tests for a number of mosquito-borne viruses that affect our residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Learn more from NJ Department of Health:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50 has-custom-font-size has-large-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/health\/cd\/topics\/vectorborne.shtml\" style=\"background-color:#008354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fight the Bite, NJ! <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Learn more from the Center for Disease Control:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/chikungunya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chikungunya Virus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/dengue\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dengue Virus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/easternequineencephalitis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eastern Equine Encephalitis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/jamestown-canyon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jamestown Canyon Virus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/lac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">La Crosse Encephalitis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/malaria\/\">Malaria<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/sle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St. Louis Encephalitis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/westnile\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West Nile Virus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/zika\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zika Virus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey has historically been a state at the forefront of mosquito control efforts. Early plagues of mosquito-borne diseases such as Yellow Fever and malaria drove the discovery that mosquitoes were directly responsible for the transmission of some of the deadliest diseases known to man. Currently, The State of New Jersey surveys and tests for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":55971,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10674\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}