LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Southern Nevada Well being District recognized the primary mosquito pool testing optimistic for the West Nile Virus in Las Vegas, the district introduced Tuesday.
The mosquito pool that examined optimistic for the West Nile virus is situated within the 89123 ZIP code, based on the Southern Nevada Well being District.
The Well being District reminds residents to take precautions and “Fight the Bite.”
The “Fight the Bite” marketing campaign encourages folks to:
Eradicate standing water round their properties
Use an FDA-registered insect repellent and put on protecting garments
Report mosquito exercise to the Well being District’s surveillance program at (702) 759-1633
Report inexperienced swimming pools to native code enforcement businesses
The district has set greater than 1,670 traps throughout Clark County since launching its seasonal mosquito surveillance in April. The surveillance is designed to observe mosquito species and detect virus exercise.
SNHD locations traps in parks, wash channels, wetlands, residential areas, and different breeding websites. Mosquitos which might be collected are then sorted and cataloged by species and site on the district’s essential well being heart earlier than they’re despatched to the Southern Nevada Public Well being Laboratory for testing.
Greater than 1,800 mosquito swimming pools have been examined this yr, the SNHD mentioned in a launch.
In response to the district, West Nile virus exercise in Clark County reached “unprecedented” ranges in 2019, with 43 reported circumstances in people. Exercise was minimal in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Twenty-six human circumstances have been reported in 2024.
The Well being District can be monitoring for the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which might transmit Zika, dengue, and chikungunya.
Further data and sources might be discovered on the Well being District web site. Extra details about mosquito surveillance might be discovered right here.
