Defending against West Nile virus
The torrential rains that drenched Southern California over the last few months have triggered an early outbreak of West Nile virus. Disease-carrying mosquitoes have begun to breed in stagnant pools of water left behind by the storms, and the virus has surfaced two months earlier than last year, when 829 people in the state contracted the disease.
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