It’s been a wet year in Southern Nevada. That means more water and when that happens, there’s often more mosquitoes. And more mosquitoes in the desert usually leads to West Nile Virus.
In fact, the Southern Nevada Health District recently reported the first West Nile-positive mosquito in Green Valley. West Nile is pretty rare, but it’s symptoms can be harsh and one strain has a fatality rate is about 10%.
We’re going to get into that, as well as an update on COVID-19. Is it still around? And mpox (formerly called monkeypox) — a small cluster was found a few months ago in Chicago among men who had been vaccinated against it. Is that a worry here?
Vivek Raman is an environmental health supervisor with the Southern Nevada Health District. He’s an expert on mosquito surveillance and the district’s “Fight The Bite” campaign. Joining him and State of Nevada host Joe Schoenmann is Haley Blake, a communicable disease supervisor with the health district who focuses on mpox.
Guests: Vivek Raman, environmental health supervisor, Southern Nevada Health District; Haley Blake, communicable disease supervisor, Southern Nevada Health District
