Las Vegas Officials Warn About Record-Breaking Number Of Mosquitoes Carrying West Nile Virus

NBC News (6/20, Sharma) reports, “A record-breaking number of mosquitoes in and around Las Vegas are carrying West Nile virus, sparking warnings from local health officials who say the public should take precautions to avoid getting bit.” Recently, “169 of over 24,000 pools of mosquitoes tested for West Nile virus returned positive – meaning at least one insect in the pool carried the disease – across 25 southern Nevada ZIP codes.” Both “the number of mosquitoes recorded and the tally of positive pools this early in the season break the area’s records for both metrics, set in 2019.”