Via Pall Times, excerpt :
" Two days after a New Haven girl succumbed to eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a news conference was held Tuesday by the county Health Department announcing that the county has taken steps in preparation of spraying areas affected by the virus.
Dr. Dennis Norfleet, the director of public health for Oswego County, and County Administrator Phil Church held the press conference late Tuesday afternoon at the county Health Department building, on Bunner Street, in Oswego. Maggie Sue Glenister Wilcox, of New Haven, passed away Sunday morning at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, in Syracuse, after being bitten by an infected mosquito.
On Monday, Norfleet had issued a release stating that the county would not spray affected areas because there was a lower mosquito infection rate this year. On Tuesday, he announced that he had submitted a letter to the New York State Department of Health declaring an emergency as to allow aerial spraying in areas where high concentrations of mosquitoes carrying EEE have been found."
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, September 9, 2010
US : More mosquitoes found infected with EEE, West Nile
Via South Coast Today :
" Temperatures may be dropping, the air laced with fall, but new EEE mosquito positives prove the summer scourge is still on the wing.
The "risk continues," said Wayne Andrews of the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project on Wednesday, when the state announced 10 isolates of mosquitoes infected with eastern equine encephalitis or West Nile virus. Among them were a New Bedford pool testing positive for West Nile Virus and another New Bedford pool infected with both.
"Both of these viruses are serious issues and can present some serious health consequences and may not be, in many cases, treatable," said New Bedford Director of Public Health Marianne De Souza, who urged people to avoid getting bitten in the first place.
While concerned about the entire city, De Souza said that based on where the samples were collected, the local mosquito control project focused wee-hour ground spraying overnight on the areas of Hicks Logan/Riverside Park and Oak Grove Cemetery.
Also announced was that, at the recommendation of the city's Board of Health, the New Bedford Public Schools and Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School have canceled all outdoor athletic activities until Oct. 1, or until the heightened risk for mosquito borne illnesses has passed this fall season.
There was some good news Wednesday with word from the Rhode Island Department of Health that a Newport County man in his 20s, who has been hospitalized with EEE for nearly a month, had improved from critical to stable condition."
" Temperatures may be dropping, the air laced with fall, but new EEE mosquito positives prove the summer scourge is still on the wing.
The "risk continues," said Wayne Andrews of the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project on Wednesday, when the state announced 10 isolates of mosquitoes infected with eastern equine encephalitis or West Nile virus. Among them were a New Bedford pool testing positive for West Nile Virus and another New Bedford pool infected with both.
"Both of these viruses are serious issues and can present some serious health consequences and may not be, in many cases, treatable," said New Bedford Director of Public Health Marianne De Souza, who urged people to avoid getting bitten in the first place.
While concerned about the entire city, De Souza said that based on where the samples were collected, the local mosquito control project focused wee-hour ground spraying overnight on the areas of Hicks Logan/Riverside Park and Oak Grove Cemetery.
Also announced was that, at the recommendation of the city's Board of Health, the New Bedford Public Schools and Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School have canceled all outdoor athletic activities until Oct. 1, or until the heightened risk for mosquito borne illnesses has passed this fall season.
There was some good news Wednesday with word from the Rhode Island Department of Health that a Newport County man in his 20s, who has been hospitalized with EEE for nearly a month, had improved from critical to stable condition."
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