Warren County health officials are warning residents about the potential dangers of mosquito-borne diseases, highlighting several illnesses that can affect both humans and animals in the region.

Pesticide treatment to control adult mosquito populations is scheduled for Thursday night in Mansfield Township, where a sample of mosquitoes collected recently tested positive for West Nile virus, officials said.

While these and other mosquito samples have tested positive, there have been no confirmed human cases of West Nile in Warren County this year .

The Mansfield specimens, collected Aug. 11 near the Morris Canal, represent the 11th sample to test positive for the virus among 277 total collections in Warren County as of Thursday.

Additional positive results were returned this summer in

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