Staff Writer
The Lebanon Reporter
Boone County — The West Nile Virus has been detected in adult mosquitoes in Boone County.
Joshua Williams, director of the environmental health division at the Boone County Health Department, said the Indiana State Department of Health collected the infected mosquitoes Aug. 19 or 20. More testing is planned.
Symptoms of West Nile in humans can take from three to 15 days after the bite to appear. No human cases have been reported yet, but Williams said that typically doesn’t happen until as late as October.
“What happens is that they find it, then you start to see human cases in a month or so,” he said.
West Nile causes basic flu-like symptoms including fatigue, fever, joint pain, neck stiffness, sometimes nausea and vomiting, confusion in the worst cases. No vaccines or treatment are available, so prevention is the best medicine.
See Tuesday's Lebanon Reporter for more of this story.
