(KRON) — The Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District (ACMAD) has confirmed the county’s first positive detection of West Nile virus of the year.
According to the district, a dead bird found in a residential area in Fremont, between Newark Boulevard and Christine Street, was collected and tested. On May 1, the district’s laboratory confirmed West Nile virus in the tested bird.
West Nile is most commonly transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito…