First pool (group) of mosquitoes to test positive this season for West Nile Virus in Rockland County NEW CITY, NY – – Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert today announced that the first pool, or group, of mosquitoes to test positive this year in Rockland County for West Nile […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City – Four more mosquito samples collected by the county and examined by the State Department of Health have been found to harbor West Nile Virus last week, according to Rockland health officials. Statewide, 62 positive samples have been found in Rockland, Westchester, Suffolk, Nassau and Onondaga counties, as well as […]
Rockland County learned this week of its first human case of West Nile Virus, which was recently diagnosed in a 50-year-old resident. “West Nile Virus has had a presence in our county since 1999, in the bird and mosquito population. We are grateful that our first documented human case was a mild infection and our […]