Tag: nile
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Biologists count West Nile mosquitoes
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Biologist Yailenne Rodriguez counts West Nile mosquitoes in the lab after Colorado’s wet spring left lots of standing water where the mosquitos which carry the West Nile virus lay their eggs. It can take only two days for larvae to hatch. So far one person in Colorado has died from West Nile in 2023, a…
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String of West Nile virus cases continues in Colorado
A Commerce City resident was hospitalized after testing positive for the West Nile virus, just weeks after the county confirmed the virus’s presence, according to the Tri-County Health Department. The health department said it learned a patient tested positive for the virus and was hospitalized as a result of the illness on Monday. Officials said…