{"id":40997,"date":"2016-08-30T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40997"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:04:05","slug":"florida-to-receive-10000-zika-preparedness-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/08\/florida-to-receive-10000-zika-preparedness-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida to Receive 10,000 Zika Preparedness Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40998 alignleft\" title=\"Lee County Mosquito Control District\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lee-County-Mosquito-Control-District-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lee-County-Mosquito-Control-District-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Lee-County-Mosquito-Control-District.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in the process of shipping 10,000 Zika preparedness kits to the state of Florida, according to the Florida Governor\u2019s office<\/p>\n<p>The kits will be available at local health departments and some hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Rick Scott is also requesting 5,000 Zika antibody testing kits.<\/p>\n<p>The preparedness kits are packed with bug repellent, bug netting, standing water treatment tablets and other items to protect people from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you just really don&#8217;t want to get Zika, then the preparedness protection kit is going to give you that&#8221; said Shelly Redovan with Lee County Mosquito Control District.<\/p>\n<p>Redovan said if you use bug repellent, it can provide you up to 90 percent protection against contracting the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in the process of shipping 10,000 Zika preparedness kits to the state of Florida, according to the Florida Governor\u2019s office The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997"}],"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=40997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}