{"id":38875,"date":"2016-02-13T23:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T04:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38875"},"modified":"2016-02-13T23:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T04:10:56","slug":"state-of-florida-opens-zika-hotline-to-field-questions-about-the-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/02\/state-of-florida-opens-zika-hotline-to-field-questions-about-the-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Florida Opens Zika <br>Hotline to Field Questions About The Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38876\" title=\"Zika Virus\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zika-Virus-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zika-Virus-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zika-Virus-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Zika-Virus.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>As the state ramps up efforts to fight the mosquito-borne virus, Governor Scott is directing the state Surgeon General to activate a Zika virus information hotline.<\/p>\n<p>He says it&#8217;ll be a useful tool for Florida residents and visitors, as well as anyone planning on traveling to Florida in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The hotline will be managed by the Florida Department of Health and will answer questions on the virus and the state&#8217;s preparedness efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The number to call is 855-622-6735.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As of Friday morning, Florida has twenty confirmed Zika cases: Hillsborough (3 cases), Miami-Dade (7 cases), Lee (3 cases) Santa Rosa (1 case), Broward (3 case), St. Johns (1 case), Osceola (1 case), and Alachua (1 case).<\/p>\n<p>All of the cases in Florida are travel-related and none involve pregnant women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the state ramps up efforts to fight the mosquito-borne virus, Governor Scott is directing the state Surgeon General to activate a Zika virus information hotline. He says it&#8217;ll be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}