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Oswego Daily News

Ritchie Announces Free Mosquito Treatments For Homeowners

Senator Patty Ritchie holds a package of the larvicide treatments which act to kill mosquitoes before they develop to their biting stage. Looking on is Chairman of the Oswego County Legislature Fred Beardsley.The free treatments, packets of a regionally produced (in Oriskany) larvicide that can be used to treat standing water, including small pools, bird baths and ornamental ponds, are being made available to homeowners through a partnership with the Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Jefferson, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties.

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West Nile Virus Found in Oswego County

Inga Back, Acting Public Health Director of the Oswego County Health Department, announced this morning (July 10) that the New York State Department of Health found evidence of West Nile virus in two collections of mosquitoes in the village of Central Square. There are no known human cases of West Nile virus in Oswego County at this time.

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