Residents are urged to get rid of standing water on their property after group of mosquitoes carrying the potentially deadly West Nile virus were found in two different towns.
Mosquitos in New York are capable of transmitting several life threatening diseases - and there's more of these nasty bloodsuckers than ever before this year.
Wait, West Nile hasn't completely disappeared while we are being vigilant about COVID? Yikes! Here's what the symptoms of West Nile are, and they are similar to our other foe.
Although the type of mosquito identified in primarily a bird-biting species, the officials with Madison County say that cases like this remind us that mosquito-borne disease is present in the area.