West Nile Virus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
August 29, 2007

The Southern Nevada Health District’s mosquito surveillance program has detected West Nile virus in a cluster of mosquitoes in the southeastern and southwestern areas of the county.

The health district announced that the county has two human cases of West Nile virus: a male under the age of 50 with the mild form of the disease, and a female, also under age 50, with the more serious form of the illness.

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