{"id":11700,"date":"2017-08-10T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2021-02-25T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T03:33:05","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-powassan-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/tick-notes\/what-you-need-to-know-about-powassan-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About Powassan Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content left\">\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p>If talk of a potential <b>tick apocalypse<\/b> isn&#8217;t bad enough, alarming news of a <b>new tick-borne disease called Powassan virus<\/b>&nbsp;has taken the internet and local TV stations by storm. While it certainly raises cause for concern, it&#8217;s important to get some perspective on this rare disease:&nbsp;<b>know the basics about what it is, how and where you can contract it, and how to protect you and your family:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/SQmjMj565UlXr\/\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"centerText\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download a PDF infographic of this Tick Note<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11583]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11586 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC.jpg 550w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC-364x281.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1713\/PowassanVirus_TERC-500x386.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If talk of a potential tick apocalypse isn&#8217;t bad enough, alarming news of a new tick-borne disease called Powassan virus\u00a0has taken the internet and local TV stations by storm. While it certainly raises cause for concern, it&#8217;s important to get some perspective on this rare disease:\u00a0know the basics about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":11604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tick-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17533,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions\/17533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}