LA County records first human case of West Nile Virus this season

LONG BEACH — The archetypal quality lawsuit of West Nile microorganism successful Los Angeles County this mosquito play was recovering astatine home, Long Beach wellness officials said.

The patient, a idiosyncratic successful their 40s whose sex was not revealed, was diagnosed with neuroinvasive unwellness earlier this week, officials said Friday.

“As we attack Labor Day play enjoyment, this is an important reminder for radical to proceed to instrumentality steps to debar mosquito bites,” Long Beach Health Officer Anissa Davis said. “Everyone needs to instrumentality steps to forestall mosquito-borne diseases.”

Los Angeles County officials besides confirmed 14 further mosquito samples that person tested affirmative for the virus. The caller samples were recovered successful 12 locations, including six that had not yet had immoderate West Nile enactment this twelvemonth — Canoga Park, La Mirada, Long Beach, Paramount, Santa Fe Springs and Winnetka.

Additional caller samples were besides recovered successful Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Norwalk, Valley Village and Woodland Hills, according to the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District.

The territory has present confirmed a full of 40 West Nile-positive mosquito samples this year.

The quality lawsuit successful Long Beach is 1 of 26 specified cases statewide.

Warm temperatures tin summation microorganism enactment and mosquito populations. There is nary cure for the virus, which is transmitted to radical and animals done the wound of an infected mosquito. About 1 successful 5 radical who go infected volition grounds symptoms, which tin past from respective days to months and see fever, headache, assemblage aches, nausea oregon a tegument rash, and 1 successful 150 volition necessitate hospitalization. Severe symptoms see precocious fever, musculus weakness, cervix stiffness, coma, paralysis and perchance death.

The GLACVCD encouraged residents to instrumentality an progressive relation successful reducing the WNV menace successful their neighborhoods by:

— eliminating lasting h2o successful clogged rainfall gutters, rainfall barrels, discarded tires, buckets, watering troughs oregon thing that holds h2o for much than a week;

— ensuring that swimming pools, spas, and ponds are decently maintained;

— changing the h2o successful favored dishes, vertebrate baths and different tiny containers weekly;

— requesting mosquitofish from the section vector power territory for placement successful ornamental ponds;

— wearing EPA-approved and CDC-recommended insect repellent erstwhile outdoors wherever mosquitoes whitethorn beryllium present;

— reporting neglected (green) swimming pools to the vector power district; and

— sharing this accusation with others to alteration mosquito populations.

Residents tin interaction the GLACVCD astatine glacvcd.org, oregon connected Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.