2009-05-28
12:27:50
West Nile season is approaching!
Northwestern Health Unit Environmental Health Officer Al Mathers says there will be changes to the surveillance program this year.
"The bird collection program has been scrapped," says Mathers. "It really is not necessary anymore. We know the virus does circulate through the avian population so the data we would collect is redundant. The mosquito trapping will be the only surveillance program for vector-borne diseases right now.
Mathers says mosquito trapping will be taking place in Dryden, Kenora and Fort Frances starting in July.
