Depending upon weather conditions, spraying could take place on Thursday, August 5. The application would take place between 6 and 9 p.m. In the event of bad weather, rain dates will be on Friday, August 6 or Saturday, August 7. The actual date will be announced to the public through the news media.
Oswego County Public Health Director Dr. Dennis Norfleet announced today that a total of eight pools of mosquitoes collected near the village of Central Square and the Toad Harbor Swamp area have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).
“The virus activity is developing into a situation very similar to what we had in 2009 when we had a case of human EEE in Oswego County,†said Dr. Norfleet.
The Oswego County Health Department reported that the Eastern equine encephalitis virus was found in a pool of mosquitoes collected on Toad Harbor Road in West Monroe.
Weather permitting, the Oswego County Health Department will conduct an aerial spray of the Toad Harbor Swamp on the north shore of Oneida Lake Wednesday evening, Sept. 2. The aerial spray will begin after 6 p.m. and continue until the area has been treated.
The Oswego County Health Department has received notification that 12 additional pools of mosquitoes have tested positive for the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. Eleven of the pools were collected from the Toad Harbor/Big Bay Swamp area and one came from a trapping site located along Lot 10 Road in the Town of Palermo.
Public Health Director Dr. Dennis Norfleet said the horse was exposed to the virus during the middle of July. The horse was humanely euthanized and a tissue specimen was submitted to the New York State Health Department’s Wadsworth Center lab for testing.
The Oswego County Health Department has been notified that four more pools of mosquitoes, collected from the Toad Harbor/Big Bay Swamp area on the north shore of Oneida Lake, have tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis. Public Health Director Dr. Dennis Norfleet said the virus has spread from a species of mosquito that feeds on birds to a species that bites humans, As a result, Oswego County is preparing to conduct aerial spraying of the Toad Harbor and Big Bay swamps by the middle of or late next week.
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