Officials Issue Alerts About Potentially Deadly Mosquito-Borne Virus Across US

Officials Issue Alerts About Potentially Deadly Mosquito-Borne Virus Across US
A micrograph of the West Nile Virus in a 2014 photo. Cynthia Goldsmith, P.E. Rollin, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Jack Phillips
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Health officials say that they are discovering mosquitoes with West Nile virus, a potentially fatal illness, across multiple states in recent days.

On Thursday, authorities in Des Moines, Iowa, announced that virus-positive mosquitoes were found in surveillance traps and through testing them. The city said that it is now performing city-wide testing.

Jack Phillips
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