{"id":1582114,"date":"2024-03-30T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e04d423a1b39ef3aeddf6bb8ab942cb0"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:16:07","slug":"puerto-rico-declares-public-health-emergency-amid-historic-dengue-fever-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/30\/puerto-rico-declares-public-health-emergency-amid-historic-dengue-fever-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Declares Public Health Emergency Amid Historic Dengue Fever Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency this week as cases of dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne infection, rise precipitously across the United States territory. In the emergency order, the commonwealth&rsquo;s department of health said it had recorded 549 cases of the disease this year so far, a 140 percent increase over the same period a year ago. The numbers have &ldquo;surpassed...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/puerto-rico-declares-public-health-emergency-amid-historic-dengue-fever-outbreak\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/puerto-rico-declares-public-health-emergency-amid-historic-dengue-fever-outbreak\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say rising temperatures are increasing dengue cases worldwide, with millions already reported in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5605,77289,77290,4,1573,1021,66946],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582115,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582114\/revisions\/1582115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}