WEST NILE HITS MORE BIRDS IN A.V. THREE NEW VIRUS-INFECTION CASES RAISE NUMBER TO EIGHT SINCE SPRING.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Three more birds have been confirmed as infected with the West Nile virus West Nile virus, microorganism and the infection resulting from it, which typically produces no symptoms or a flulike condition. The virus is a flavivirus and is related to a number of viruses that cause encephalitis. in Lancaster, mosquito-control officials said. The finds raise to eight the number of birds found with the mosquito-borne virus since spring in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , but the nearest human cases have been in the San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. and San Gabriel valleys. ``We hope we can get by again without any, but eventually there's going to be a human case. We do as much as we can but there's no way to eliminate all mosquitoes,'' Antelope Valley Mosquito and Vector Control Vector control is any method to limit or eradicate the vectors of vector born diseases, for which the pathogen (e.g. virusor parasite) is transmitted by a vector which can be mammals, birds or arthropods, especially insects, and more specifically mosquitoes. District entomologist Karen Mellor Karen Hannan (née Mellor) was born in 1963 and became the 30th contestant to win the Miss United Kingdom pageant. Mellor was discovered by a model agent while modelling bridal wear for a work colleague's wife. said. The virus is likely to remain a potential threat until about Halloween, when temperatures drop enough to end the mosquito season, she said. The virus was confirmed most recently in a chicken in a ``sentinel'' flock set out near 15th Street West and Avenue I to detect mosquito-borne diseases, and in two dead crows, one found near Avenue K and 10th Street West and one near Avenue K and 30th Street East. So far this year, five residents of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County have been confirmed as infected with West Nile, but only one became ill enough to be hospitalized. Statewide, more than 170 people have been identified as infected and two have died -- a decline from last year at this time, when nearly 600 people had been infected. Nineteen Californians died last year. The decline may be due to people taking steps to avoid mosquito bites or to efforts to kill mosquitoes and prevent them from breeding, Mellor said. Studies have differed over whether people are becoming more resistant to the virus. Since the virus first turned up in the Antelope Valley in 2003, it has sickened and killed birds and horses, but so far no people, officials said. This year the virus was detected in May in central Lancaster and in June in central Palmdale, both times in flocks of chickens kept by the mosquito-control district to detect mosquito-borne diseases, and in a dead starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. in August in west Palmdale. |
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