Spraying to continue against West Nile
MIDDLETOWN TWP. - Bucks County will continue its mosquito spraying efforts to combat West Nile virus this week, following news that human cases of the virus were recently reported in Philadelphia and Delaware County.
MIDDLETOWN TWP. - Bucks County will continue its mosquito spraying efforts to combat West Nile virus this week, following news that human cases of the virus were recently reported in Philadelphia and Delaware County.
The new Bucks spraying is scheduled for Friday in Middletown Township. The county's Department of Health has been conducting sprayings since earlier this summer.
No human cases have been reported in Bucks this year, according to a website for the state's West Nile control program.
But a woman in Philadelphia and two women in Delaware County have been infected, according to the Department of Environmental Protection. All three of those cases were reported within the last two weeks.
Two others have been infected elsewhere in the state, according to the department.
About 70 to 80 percent of those infected with the virus display no symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But it can be fatal: There were 286 deaths nationwide last year, according to agency statistics, four in Pennsylvania.
-Chris Palmer