The first reported detection of the West Nile Virus in Warriors Mark Township, Huntingdon County, was announced Monday morning.
\nDetails were sketchy this morning, but according to Kristen Bardell, of the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the virus was found in a dead crow in Warriors Mark Township. Bardell, who works out of DEP\u2019s south central regional office in Harrisburg, told The Daily News that the department\u2019s policy is to identify the municipality in which the incident occurred but not the exact location.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be increasing our surveillance and monitoring activities in that area,\u201d observed Bardell.
\nAccording to Huntingdon County Conservation District manager Andy Patterson, county monitoring activities will be stepped up in the area. The county currently maintains a monitoring site in the Warriors Mark Township area. Patterson serves as the county West Nile Virus coordinator and the monitoring activities is being overseen by West Nile Virus intern Andy Miller, a student at Juniata College.
\n\u201cWe plan to increase our presence in that area,\u201d remarked Patterson. \u201cWe expect to set up some additional monitoring sites.\u201d
\nBardell reported that an infected crow was found in Warriors Mark Township Aug. 7 by an unidentified person who alerted the local health department. No other details were immediately available.
\nWest Nile virus monitoring activities in Huntingdon County runs from April through late fall when frost hits the area.
\nTo date, the potentially lethal West Nile Virus has already been identified in 13 counties in Pennsylvania including neighboring Centre County. Although no humans have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus, health officials are seeing a larger number of cases this year.
\nPatterson said that the county is currently monitoring 15 sites in the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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