Officials Confirm First West Nile Virus Infection in Orange County This Year

This 2006 photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. James Gathany/AP Photo

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A Buena Park woman has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first infection in Orange County this year, the Orange County Health Care Agency announced Sept. 22.

The woman was treated in a hospital earlier this month for neuroinvasive disease and is recuperating, officials said.