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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Department of Public Health is informing the nationalist that the West Nile Virus has been recovered successful mosquitoes successful Fresno County.
It's the archetypal clip successful 2025 that the Fresno County Mosquito Control District has detected the virus. No quality cases person been reported truthful far.
District Manager of the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District, Jodi Holeman, says she and her squad person been preparing for the summertime mosquito season.
Holeman says each twelvemonth they spot West Nile Virus successful Fresno County and with Wednesday's announcement of the archetypal detection of the summer, now's the clip for prevention.
"Now is the clip to beryllium utilizing insect repellent. It's present the clip to beryllium going retired and looking for lasting h2o successful their backyards," Holeman said.
She says the nationalist should beryllium doing their portion to enactment safe, similar wearing insect repellent, staying indoors astatine dawn and dusk, and draining inactive h2o adjacent their homes. While astatine this constituent it's not known wherever successful the region the microorganism was detected, Holeman says districts usually usage this arsenic a motion to commencement ramping up their treatment.
"We volition instrumentality our trucks that person spray instrumentality and we're making a wide country ULV application. It's a spray exertion that targets big mosquitoes. So we bash privation residents to cognize we are going to beryllium successful these neighborhoods wherever these mosquitoes are investigating affirmative and we're going to beryllium spraying for big mosquitoes," she said.
Fresno County Department of Public Health Educator Leticia Berber says portion there's nary quality cases truthful acold this year, they're connected alert. Last year, the region saw implicit 100 cases and 2 deaths from the virus. She says there's nary medicine and nary vaccine.
Berber says those supra the property of 65 and younger than 5 years aged are astir astatine hazard for superior issues if they get sick.
"Our extremity is to person nary cases, nary quality cases of West Nile Virus. That's what we want. That's what we're informing the nationalist on, what to do, however to support themselves," Berber said.
She added that the symptoms lucifer the flu, and says if those who person been bitten by mosquitoes and commencement to consciousness a headache, fever and rashes are urged to interaction their doctor.
