California’s West Nile surge has killed 32 people, and experts are ‘scared of next year’

Mosquito-control experts are concerned about another difficult season ahead as California confronts a surge in West Nile virus, and the California Department of Public Health reports that the virus has killed 32 people.

California had not seen this much West Nile activity in five years, but warm, rainy summer and fall weather helped drive the increase, CalMatters reported.

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Los Angeles County accounted for more than half of California’s reported human cases.

Statewide, 528 people had become seriously ill from the virus as of Nov. 6, according to California Department of Public Health figures cited by CalMatters…

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