GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Late last week, the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services announced the first case of the West Nile Virus in a human in Michigan this year.

It was detected in a Livingston County resident.

“Every summer in Michigan, we do see some level of West Nile activity, and usually that involves some number of humans getting sick,” said health department epidemiologist Becky Reik.

The department said that it’s seen a number of cases in mosquitoes in several counties, including Kent and Kalamazoo counties.

“I think sometimes people think of mosquito-borne diseases as things you would only get in the really rural areas," Reik said. "But that's not been the case historically with West Nile, we have it probably throughout the state, but we do tend to see more case

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