{"id":287997,"date":"2026-07-30T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=287997"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:03:06","slug":"heat-in-europe-raises-risk-of-infectious-disease-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/287997\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat in Europe raises risk of infectious disease spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The risk of infectious diseases is growing amid longer and warmer summers across Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2026\/07\/30\/europes-heatwaves-are-fuelling-infectious-diseases-health-agency-warns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the current heatwaves are making headlines, it is the continuously higher temperatures of an ever longer duration that create the conditions for many infections to spread,&rdquo; the health agency said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>There are four particular areas the ECDC is monitoring: foodborne diseases, mosquito-borne diseases, tick-borne diseases, and diseases caused by waterborne Vibrio bacteria.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of infectious diseases is growing amid longer and warmer summers across Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned, according to Euronews. &ldquo;While the current heatwaves are making headlines, it is the continuously higher temperatures of an ever longer duration that create the conditions for many infections to spread,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":287939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287998,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287997\/revisions\/287998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}