Less Spraying for West Nile Virus This Year

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Less Spraying for West Nile Virus This Year

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

he Bloomberg administration will spray insecticide to kill adult mosquitoes this year only if health officials find birds that have died from the West Nile virus or if the virus is detected in a set number of mosquitoes.

The virus killed seven people in the New York metropolitan region in 1999, the first year the virus was found in the Western Hemisphere. Since then, the city has aggressively tried to prevent the spread of the disease by widespread spraying to kill the adult mosquitoes.

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Less Spraying for West Nile Virus This Year

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