Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Kathryn Anderson announced July 16 that the first human case of the West Nile virus infection since 2019 has been reported in an elderly adult residing in the Town of Cicero. The person was hospitalized, has since ...

New Orleans ramps up mosquito control due to West Nile virus activity, planning nighttime spray missions in several neighborhoods.

Warming trends across North America have helped establish West Nile virus (WNV) as an endemic disease in New York state, and in the future continued climate change will help increase transmissibility of the virus, according to new research published late last week in Scientific Reports.

Lubbock is reminding citizens of its online method to request mosquito spraying as recent heavy rainfall creates conditions for the insects to thrive.