Pomona, NY – The fist pools of mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile virus this year in Rockland County have been confirmed by the State Health Department, County Health Commissioner Dr. Joan Facelle said Monday.
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Four pools of adult mosquito samples tested positive for the virus – one in the Town of Ramapo, one in the Town of Haverstraw and two in the Town of Clarkstown.
The mosquitoes were collected during the week of July 18 as part of the county’s ongoing West Nile virus surveillance efforts.
There have been no human cases of the virus in Rockland.
Facelle said health department mosquito control teams will continue to treat all known mosquito breeding sites, including those near those positive pools. Larval control activities will continue throughout the rest of the summer.
Why treat them? Why not kill em? Anybody enlighten me?
“Treating”, in this instance, means spraying the pools, ponds and puddles where the mosquitoes lay their eggs, thereby killing them.
Now you may consider yourself enlightened, Miri!
Don’t go to the country.
Now we have another good reason to remain in the city.
There are far less fatal car accidents, pool drownings, lack of tnizus in the country, never mind the ruchnius’dik ‘negative impact on the men’, who remain in the city without their wives, all week long…… now we have another good reason why not to go to the country and live a far healthier and happier lifstyle, B’Ruchnius and BeGashmius, in the city.
Just to enlighten you…Rockland county and Pomona is in Monsey not in the country!