West Nile Virus Positive Samples in Luzerne County
From
White Haven
Sent
Mon, Jul 20 @ 11:16am
Description
The borough has received an email from the Luzerne County Conservation District
I am writing to inform you of West Nile Virus positive samples in both West Pittston Borough and Wyoming Borough. Below you will see information about municipalities sampled so far by our program this year and virus detection highlighted in red. Now that we have detected West Nile Virus in the county, I will be distributing this email update to municipalities bi-weekly. We are continuing to monitor through larval and adult surveillance to help diminish the potential spread of West Nile. Please encourage residents in your municipality to remove standing water from property. Artificial habitat such as bird baths, tires, unsealed rain barrels, children's toys, wheelbarrows, or anything else that holds stagnant water for more than 4 days can begin to breed mosquitoes. Cleaning up larval habitat can have one of the largest impacts on mosquito populations!
I am attaching some PDFs to pass along to residents for municipalities where WNV was detected. I am encouraging residents to take the following precautions:
• Stay indoors during peak mosquito hours (dusk to dawn)
• Wear long sleeves, pants, and closed toes shoes, if possible.
• Wear EPA registered repellents.
This notification was posted by White Haven. White Haven is solely responsible for this notification and unless specifically indicated, no other community or individual utilizing Savvy Citizen is sponsoring, responsible for, or endorsing this notification.
