According to the latest Massachusetts Arbovirus Update, the risk level for contracting WNV has increased from low to moderate in six towns in Hampden County.
Massachusetts residents are being urged to take proper precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitos as a second and third human case of West Nile Virus has been reported. This is after the first human case of the year was reported yesterday in an 80-year-old woman who was believed to have been infected in Middlesex County...
The State Department of Public Health has confirmed reports of another four human cases of West Nile Virus in Massachusetts. According to officials with the Department, the new cases bring the total in the state up to seven so far this mosquito season...