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Kern County's first case of West Nile virus in a person this year was detected recently, the Kern County Public Health Services Department said Friday.
On June 13, Kern County Public Health announced the first positive sample of the West Nile virus has been found in a mosquito. There have been no reported cases of a human contracting West ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern County health officials are reminding residents to protect themselves from mosquito-borne disease after a mosquito carrying West Nile virus was detected in ...
West Nile virus was first isolated from a patient from the West Nile district of northern Uganda, in Africa, in 1937. It came to the United States in 1999, and ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Every year in Kern County people and animals are infected by the West Nile Virus. According to Kern County Public Health in 2019 there were 32 human cases.