West Nile Virus Found Near Little League Field In Morris Co.

ROCKAWAY, NJ — Mosquitoes with West Nile virus have been found near a little league field in Rockaway Township, officials said online.

The virus was detected in a pool at Peterson Field on Fleetwood Drive on Aug. 16 during routine testing, officials said. It is just one of nearly 300 pools that have tested positive for the virus, but there has only been one reported case of human infection.

Residents in the area can take precautions against the risk of mosquito bites: make sure window screens are intact, wear long sleeves and pants, and stay inside during dawn and dusk hours when they are most active. To prevent mosquitoes from breeding, residents should take care to drain standing bodies of water, like bird baths or sandboxes.

"If everyone would take steps around their own homes to eliminate standing water, it could make a very big difference, reducing the number of mosquitoes by many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, where you live,'' Morris County Mosquito Division Superintendent Kristian McMorland said.

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