West Nile Virus

Connecticut begins to collect, test mosquitoes for West Nile virus

Published in Food and Drug Law Weekly, June 25th, 2004

The year's first batch of mosquito traps were set up across Connecticut June 1, 2004, as state officials began to track and test the insects for West Nile virus, which they say continues to pose a serious health threat to humans.

"We will find West Nile virus again," said Theodore Andreadis, chief medical entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. "All indications show that it is firmly entrenched here, not only in Connecticut, but in the entire United States. It's not going to fade."

The experiment station will trap mosquitoes at 91 locations across the state once a week until the end of October. The tracking and...

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Source: Food and Drug Law Weekly (2004-06-25)

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