Laptop Battery Five more dead crows from Ocean County have tested positive for West Nile virus, the county Health Department announced Monday.
West Nile virus has reached Cumberland County for the first time this year, the state Department of Health and Senior Services reported Monday. State Health Department testing revealed that a dead crow recovered at an unspecified location in the county was carrying the encephalitis virus. So far this year, 341 crows have tested positive for the disease in New Jersey, including four in Cape May County, and one each in Atlantic and Ocean counties. Also, the state has found the virus in mosquito pools from Atlantic, Burlington and Cape May counties, among others.
Thinkpad Those five bring the county total to eight for this year. Two of the dead birds were found in Brick Township and one each in Barnegat, Beachwood, Jackson, Lakewood, Ocean Gate and Stafford, according to a written release from the Health Department.
Forty dead crows from Ocean County have been tested so far this year. In 2002, the county submitted 166 birds for testing. Seventy of them tested positive for West Nile virus. Residents who wish to report a dead crow may call the county Health Department at (732) 9700, Ext. 7502. Only large adult crows with black eyes are tested, not the smaller grackles with yellow eyes, according to the department.
Microsoft "As the summer season progresses and more dead crows test positive to West Nile virus, the need to reduce or eliminate all possible mosquito breeding grounds in backyards and commercial areas becomes more important," said Joseph Przywara, public health coordinator, in the release.
Five more dead crows from Ocean County have tested positive for West Nile virus, the county Health Department announced Monday. Those five bring the county total to eight for this year. Two of the dead birds were found in Brick Township and one each in Barnegat, Beachwood, Jackson, Lakewood, Ocean Gate and Stafford, according to a written release from the Health Department. "As the summer season progresses and more dead crows test positive to West Nile virus, the need to reduce or eliminate all possible mosquito breeding grounds in backyards and commercial areas becomes more important, " said Joseph Przywara, public health coordinator, in the release.
Laptop Computers Forty dead crows from Ocean County have been tested so far this year.
. (AXcess News) Reports of West Nilevirus are rising on the West Coast even though fall's cooler weather is dampening the reproduction of mosquitos there. San Francisco reported its third case of West Nile virus today. aged man tested positive for West Nile virus but that he was recovering at his home. The other two who contracted West Nile virus, aged man and woman, were likely to have contracted West Nile virus from visits to the Sacramento area, health officials said.
Laptop Computer In 2002, the county submitted 166 birds for testing. Seventy of them tested positive for West Nile virus.
The most preventative treatment against West Nile virus for horses is a vaccination, according to the Department of Agriculture Secretary Charles M. Kuperus. "We recommend that horse owners have their horses vaccinated against the potentially deadly disease, " he said. Bruner said five dead crows have tested positive for West Nile virus, out of the 20 that have been submitted to the state for evaluation so far.
Desktop Computer Residents who wish to report a dead crow may call the county Health Department at (732) 341-9700, Ext. 7502. Only large adult crows with black eyes are tested, not the smaller grackles with yellow eyes, according to the department.
Notebooks The Press of Atlantic City - 7/29/2003
Topic: Pesticides
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