Mosquitoes

Suffolk County’s vector control division will be applying pesticides today through Wednesday to control mosquito larvae in certain marshes across the county, including some in the Town of Riverhead, the Suffolk County Health Department announced in a press release issued this afternoon.

Locations for larvicide applications include marshes in Riverhead, Aquebogue, Flanders, New Suffolk, and Southold.

Mosquito samples collected two weeks ago from Aquebogue and Manorville tested positive for the West Nile virus, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services said today. 

The Suffolk County Vector Control Division will be spraying larvicide for mosquito control throughout the county this week, including seven locations in the Town of Riverhead and one location in Flanders, the county health department said Monday afternoon.

Eight new mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus, including two in Aquebogue, Suffolk County Health Commissioner Gregson Pigott said yesterday.

The Suffolk County health department yesterday reported two human cases of West Nile virus yesterday, the first cases to be reported this season.

Eleven mosquito samples in Suffolk County have tested positive for West Nile virus, the county health department announced today.

Eighteen new mosquito samples in Suffolk, including samples taken from locations in Aquebogue, Jamesport and Southold, have tested positive for West Nile Virus, Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. James Tomarken announced Friday afternoon.

Long Island is now considered "ground zero" for Lyme disease and once-exotic viruses and other infections are gaining a growing foothold. How goes our struggle against these vectors and the costly and deadly illness they bring with their bites? In two understated words: not well.

The measure is in response to the confirmed incidence of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in a mosquito sample from the Manorville area.