NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Metro Public Health Department’s Pest Management Team has reported the presence of West Nile Virus in Davidson County.
The team said that the virus was detected in a mosquito pool; the trap for the pool had been established off Neelys Bend Road in Nashville’s Madison neighborhood. This is the first detection of West Nile Virus this year with no human cases reported so far in 2025.
The Metro Public Health Department said that last year, there was a high level of virus detected in area mosquito pools. The department first started monitoring the mosquito traps for the 2024 season at the end of April.
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In all, the Pest Management team captured and tested more than 39,000 mosquitos across 32 Davidson County sample sites. By mid-October, the virus had been detected at every sampling site in the county…