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Despite fewer cases, the presence of West Nile Virus still raises concerns as virus-free years become less common.

Weather events can disrupt the typical three-year cycle of West Nile Virus cases.

On Wednesday, Aug. 20, the Chatham County Mosquito Control Department received word of the county’s second case of West Nile Virus (WNV) from a trap in midtown Savannah.

The finding arrives on the heels of the county’s mosquito forecast that warned of a “sharp rise” in mosquito numbers last week.

The good news is that “it's looking like it's a down year" for WNV cases, said Mosquito Control Department Director Ture Carlson. Over a month ago on July 7, the season’s first case was also detected in a trap in Midtown. But just because there are only two WNV infections so fa

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