EVANSVILLE – For the first time this year, a group of Vanderburgh County mosquitos have tested positive for the West Nile virus, the health department announced Thursday.

The result came courtesy of a "sample group of mosquitoes from a surveillance trap" set up in Evansville, county health administrator Joe Gries wrote in a news release. It comes on the heels of the year's first human case of West Nile in the state, which was reported in Vanderburgh County in July.

Symptoms of West Nile virus

Infected mosquitoes can spread the disease to humans.

"While most people infected with West Nile virus have no symptoms or only mild flu-like symptoms," the release states, "some people will develop a more severe form of the disease affecting the nervous system, including inflammation in the brai

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