Kent County Officials Warn About Uptick In Mosquitos Carrying West Nile Virus

Brian McVicar | bmcvicar@mlive.com, The Grand Rapids Press
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:16am

Recent testing on a sample of those mosquitos showed 26 percent carried West Nile virus.

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