No Picture
Oswego Daily News

EEE Found In Bird-Biting Mosquitoes In West Monroe

<p>A mosquito bites a human.  Image courtesy of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p>

Dr. Dennis Norfleet, Public Health Director of the Oswego County Health Department, said this morning (July 13), that the Eastern equine encephalitis virus was found in a pool of mosquitoes collected on Toad Harbor Road in West Monroe. The virus has only been found in the type of mosquitoes that bite birds, not in mosquitoes that feed on humans. […]