Monday, June 23, 2014

West Nile Researcher Says There Could Be a Lot of Cases This Year

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Recent wet conditions with summer warm up adds up to a lot of mosquitoes which transmit the disease. Birds carry the disease and both humans and horses are at risk. The mosquitoes that carry West Nile are most active at dawn and dusk.  Most cases in Colorado occur where there are a lot of irrigation canals and ponds in the Ft Collins-Greeley-Longmount area and the Grand Junction-Montrose-Delta area. There were 322 cases reported in 2013 with 7 deaths.

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