Disease transmitted by mosquitoes on the rise in Louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Mosquito abatement experts say one disease is on the rise in mosquito populations across the state, and numbers will only rise as the temperatures get warmer.

“We throw everything we can at the mosquitoes,” Brett Heitzmann, East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Abatement & Rodent Control Entomologist, said.

Around this time of year, mosquito abatement efforts are in full force for East Baton Rouge and many other parishes around the state…

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