Health: More Mosquitos Test Positive For West Nile

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More Mosquitos Test Positive For West Nile

 

Angela Word, KFOX Associate Producer

 

POSTED: 8:14 pm MDT September 15, 2006

 

September 15, 2006 -- Dozens of West Nile cases are being investigated

in our area and more mosquitoes with the virus have been found.

 

Friday KFOX learned that mosquitoes have tested positive for the West

Nile Virus in Deming.

 

No human cases have been found there but the New Mexico Health

Department is on guard.

 

" We have positive mosquitoes and mosquitoes are what transmit West Nile

Virus so if we have positive mosquitoes the likelihood of having human

cases is obviously going to increase, " said Chris Minnick, of the New

Mexico Department of Health.

 

Two deaths in El Paso are still being investigated as possibly being

linked to the West Nile Virus.

 

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