A motion's going before the Metro Vancouver Board to discontinue mosquito control for West Nile virus. The main reason for wanting to discontinue the program is because there was no west nile virus detected in Metro Vancouver last year or this year. West Nile's only been found in the region one time - in a horse in 2009 in Aldergrove. The BC Centre … [Read more...]
Conditions perfect for West Nile
July 11, 2012 by
Conditions are perfect here in BC for an outbreak of West Nile Virus. So far this year there have been no cases of West Nile in the province but that could soon change with the hot, dry weather. Allen Furnell with the BC Centre for Disease Control says the hotter the weather, the faster mosquitoes develop. "in BC you have to remember we had a … [Read more...]
