Another local county has identified a positive case of West Nile virus in mosquitoes. The Vermilion County Health Department announced that a batch of mosquitoes had tested positive for the virus. The infected batch was collected near Westville,

Arlington takes action against WNV by scheduling targeted ground mosquito spraying on Sep 17 & 18 to lower infection risk.

For the third time this year, officials found a West Nile Virus-infected mosquito in Mercer County, an organization that monitors mosquito-borne diseases said Wednesday.

A Hampstead man died and a Kensington man was sickened by mosquito-borne viruses. "We are very concerned," NH epidemiologist Dr. Chan says.

Who would have ever thought Burton, I mean really? And my husband has been spraying for mosquitos all summer long,” she said. “You’ve got to know that it’s in Genesee County and the city of Burton.”

The agency said that additional monitoring will be done in the area where these mosquito samples were collected and control work will be conducted, depending on the number and types of mosquitoes that are found.

The resident had not recently left the state, leading health officials to believe the disease was acquired locally for the first time since 2020.

This is the second Maine resident to become infected with WNV this year and the first to contract it locally since 2020, according to the Maine CDC.