Mosquito control officials are encouraging San Francisco Bay Area residents to safeguard against West Nile virus (WNV) after rains drenched Santa Clara County during most of March.


ABC 7 News reported online that after an unusually wet winter and spring, Santa Clara County vector control warns the year could be a record year for the virus, which is spread by the bites of infected mosquitoes (https://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4062851).


“The amount of rainfall we’ve experienced this year is a concern to us because clearly once we get a break in this rainfall, we are going to find standing water everywhere,” Tim Mulligan of the Santa Clara Co. Vector Control District told ABC 7.


According to California’s WNV web site, 10 WNV-positive birds have been collected in Clara, San Diego, and Orange Counties this year. Fifty-four of 58 California counties reported WNV detection in 2005. See the breakdown of species below

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