Amid the COVID-19 pandemic other public health work continues, including checking out the West Nile virus situation in the Quinte area.
West Nile Virus is spread by the Culex species of mosquito.
These mosquitoes typically feed overnight from evening to morning.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health inspector Aptie Sookoo tells Quinte News the team began capturing the insects in July and will continue until the end of this month.
Sookoo says, so far, no positive pool of the mosquitoes has turned up.
“I’m taken aback myself because with the little bit of precipitation we’re having (this summer) and the hot humid weather, we would have thought we would have had positive pools but so far we haven’t had any so far.”
A total of 15 mosquito traps are set throughout the two counties, Belleville and Quinte West.
Public health inspector Sookoo set three, his team of students set a total of twelve.
Sooko and his team check them every second day.
The specimen mosquitoes are sent to a laboratory in Quebec.
Sookoo says the last two positive tests were a few years ago from traps in Belleville and Prince Edward County.
For the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health information on West Nile Virus CLICK HERE
