West Nile Virus -- United States
A horse in Greendale Township has been euthanized due to complications of West Nile virus [WNV infection].
"This is the 1st known positive WNV horse in Midland county," stated Midland County Mosquito Control (MCMC) Director Carl Doud. "The positive horse is an indication of human WNV risk as horses are a dead end host like humans. It is evidence that the virus has moved beyond the normal mosquito-bird-mosquito cycle."
This season [2017], MCMC has seen 18 birds (crows and blue jays) test
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