Region ready to keep West Nile at bay
By Emily Babay
Even as summer — and mosquito season — approaches, the threat of humans catching West Nile virus has largely disappeared in Erie County.
Local health officials are beginning their annual campaign to fight the virus, a mosquito-borne disease that can cause potentially fatal swelling in the brain. Officials say the decline in West Nile cases that has occurred over the past several years is a trend that extends across Pennsylvania and is primarily due to measures aimed at lowering the mosquito population.
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