{"id":4768,"date":"2009-04-26T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2009-04-26T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T12:30:19","slug":"give_me_back_my_west_nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/give_me_back_my_west_nile.html","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Back My West Nile!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/ok_now_youre_freaking_me_out.html\">a coincidence<\/a>, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04262009\/news\/regionalnews\/qns__school_fear_166307.htm\">probably actually swine flu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A group of Queens high school students likely brought Mexico&#8217;s deadly swine flu epidemic to the city after they went on a wild spring-break party to Cancun earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Some seniors from St. Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows took the trip over Easter hiatus two weeks ago. Days later, an outbreak of flu-like symptoms erupted at the school, leaving about 200 kids complaining of being ill.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, city health officials confirmed that eight students &#8220;have probable human swine influenza&#8221; after testing positive for Influenza A, which officials say causes the swine strain of disease.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not just a coincidence, it&#8217;s probably actually swine flu: A group of Queens high school students likely brought Mexico&#8217;s deadly swine flu epidemic to the city after they went on a wild spring-break party to Cancun earlier this month. Some seniors from St. Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows took the trip over Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}