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West Nile Virus Surveillance Reports

The best way to prevent WNV disease or any other mosquito-borne illness is to reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home and to take personal precautions to avoid mosquito bites. Precautions include:

  • Avoid being outdoors when mosquitoes are most active, especially between dusk and dawn.
  • When outdoors, wear shoes and socks, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt, and apply insect repellent that includes DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or IR 3535 according to label instructions. Consult a physician before using repellents on infants.
  • Make sure doors and windows have tight-fitting screens. Repair or replace screens that have tears or other openings. Try to keep doors and windows shut, especially at night.
  • Eliminate all sources of standing water that can support mosquito breeding, including water in bird baths, ponds, flowerpots, wading pools, old tires and any other receptacles. In communities where there are organized mosquito control programs, contact your municipal government to report areas of stagnant water in roadside ditches, flooded yards and similar locations that may produce mosquitoes.

 

West Nile Virus 2013 Weekly Reports
June July August September
WNV_06_10_2013 WNV_07_02_2013 WNV_08_05_2013 WNV_09_02_2013
WNV_06_17_2013 WNV_07_08_2013 WNV_08_12_2013 WNV_09_09_2013
WNV_06_24_2013 WNV_07_15_2013 WNV_08_19_2013 WNV_09_16_2013
  WNV_07_22_2013 WNV_08_26_2013 WNV_09_23-2013
  WNV_07_29_2013   WNV_09_30_2013

 

West Nile Virus 2012 Weekly Reports
June July August September & October
WNV_06_11_2012 WNV_07_02_2012 WNV_08_06_2012 WNV_09_04_2012
WNV_06_18_2012 WNV_07_09_2012 WNV_08_13_2012 WNV_09_10_2012 
WNV_06_25_2012 WNV_07_16_2012 WNV_08_20_2012 WNV_09_17_2012
  WNV_07_23_2012 WNV_08_27_2012  WNV_09_24_2012
  WNV_07_30_2012   WNV_10_01_2012


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Chicago Department of Public Health
Environmental Health • 2133 W. Lexington, Chicago, IL 60612 • (312) 746-6621 • www.cityofchicago.org/health