The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 07/26/2024 - 2:59pm
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By adamg - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 12:40pm
The state Department of Public Health yesterday announced the state's first animal case of West Nile Virus: In an alpaca, somewhere in sprawling Middlesex County, a week after four human cases had been confirmed in the state. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 07/22/2018 - 5:36pm
At Jamaica Pond this afternoon.
By adamg - Thu, 07/31/2014 - 2:49pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reported the news today, just a couple days after announcing West Nile-ish mosquitoes in Jamaica Plain. You know the drill.
By adamg - Tue, 07/29/2014 - 3:09pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports some mosquitoes found in Jamaica Plain tested positive for the virus earlier this week.
By adamg - Fri, 07/26/2013 - 8:35am
Slather on the DEET: The Boston Public Health Commission yesterday announced the finding of the year's first virus-laden mosquito, in Jamaica Plain.
By adamg - Fri, 09/07/2012 - 2:26pm
The Boston Public Health Commission says the woman, in her 50s, was hospitalized, but has since been released.
By adamg - Thu, 07/12/2012 - 3:42pm
By adamg - Thu, 06/28/2012 - 2:56pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports the first mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus this year were found somewhere in Roslindale and the city has started putting larvicide in drains and other places where mosquitoes breed.
By adamg - Thu, 08/04/2011 - 5:39pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports latest bug testing shows mosquitoes laced with West Nile Virus are in Hyde Park, South Boston and East Boston. Earlier testing had shown germy bugs in West Roxbury, Roslindale and Dorchester.
By adamg - Thu, 07/28/2011 - 5:34pm
The Boston Public Health Commission today added Roslindale to the list of neighborhoods where mosquitoes have tested positive for the virus, which doesn't pose much of a threat to most people.
By adamg - Fri, 07/15/2011 - 3:42pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports the latest sampling of mosquitoes shows West Nile Virus in one sample taken in Dorchester and three in West Roxbury - following the detection of the virus in other West Roxbury locations a few days earlier.
By adamg - Fri, 07/08/2011 - 3:20pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports the year's first detection of mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus, in West Roxbury. No human cases have yet been diagnosed.
By adamg - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 3:11pm
The Boston Public Health Commission announced today it's found West-Nile-laden mosquitoes in East Boston, Fenway, Roslindale, West Roxbury and Dorchester. This is in addition to an earlier announcement about germ-infested biters in Hyde Park.
By adamg - Fri, 07/02/2010 - 3:41pm
The state reports the first detection of the year of West Nile Virus in mosquitoes, from
By adamg - Thu, 08/13/2009 - 4:24pm
The Boston Public Health Commission announced today that West Nile Virus has been found among a sample of mosquitoes collected in Jamaica Plain (they don't say where, exactly). No birds or people have yet tested positive this year, the commission says.
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