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Updated: 6:14 PM Jul 5, 2008
Looking for Mosquitoes
While most folks try to avoid mosquitoes, Greg Chrislip and his crew go out looking for them.
Posted: 4:20 PM Jul 5, 2008 |
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - While most folks try to avoid mosquitoes, Greg Chrislip and his crew go out looking for them.
The insects are captured in traps and tested for West Nile virus.
Chrislip, a public health entomologist with the state Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program, says they do this every year.
So far this year, he says mosquitoes carrying West Nile have been discovered in Kanawha County as well as the Jackson County Fairgrounds. No cases have been found in humans though. There are 29 species of mosquito in West Virginia.
Chrislip and a group of college interns set traps and then go back to collect the catch. Last year, the team collected 24,000 from mid-June to August.
The last reported human case of West Nile virus in Kanawha County was 2006 when a Mink Shoals man contracted it. His brain and spinal cord were infected but he survived.
Most infected people don't become ill, but 7 to 10 percent of cases are fatal.
Mosquito season is May through October with most of the insects appearing in July and August when the weather is hot and humid.
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IS THAT WHAT THOSE PURPLE BOXES IS THAT ARE HANGING FROM TREES ALONG THE ROAD SIDE MOSQUITOE TRAPS?
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Not to be picky, but since this IS the news and one would assume that there are editors, one should perhaps notice that the title of the article is not grammatically correct. "Looking for Mosquitoes" should be the title, assuming we are talking about the plural of mosquitoes, which by the way IS correctly spelled in the article. But, if the title is supposed to go on to say "Looking for Mosquito's...." and then whatever it is that are possessed by or belong to a mosquito, then there is part of the title missing. Just thought your editors might want to know.
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