Friday, July 19, 2013

Mosquito monitoring can prevent West Nile outbreaks, study says

About 100 cases of West Nile virus infection -- and a dozen deaths -- could have been prevented last year if public health officials in Dallas had kept track of the proportion of infected mosquitoes caught in traps, a new study says.



via L.A. Times - Health http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/features/health/~3/lla4HrFbcS0/la-sci-sn-west-nile-virus-dallas-20130717,0,2762923.story

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