Ohio leads the nation this year in cases of one mosquito-borne virus while Franklin County will be conducting spraying because of another such skeeter-spread virus. There are currently 13 cases in ...
The Salt Lake County Health Department has found St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) in several mosquito pools in Salt Lake County for the first time. That adds to the mosquito-borne illness risk, ...
The Chikungunya virus is spread by infected mosquitoes and causes symptoms like fever and severe joint pain. There is no specific medicine to treat the virus, and the best way to prevent it is by ...
The first human case of West Nile virus (WNV) is confirmed in northern Milwaukee County by the North Shore Health Department. WNV is spread by infected mosquitoes (not person-to-person); most cases ...
A resident of New York has contracted the state's first known case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease acquired locally, officials said. The person infected in Long Island likely got the virus ...
THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IS REPORTING THE STATE’S FIRST CONFIRMED DEATH CAUSED BY EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS. THE VIRUS, BETTER KNOWN AS TRIPLE E, IS ...