Atlantic County health officials are urging residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites and to remove standing water from their properties after more mosquito pool samples tested positive this month for West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis.

Samples collected Aug. 20 from the 100 block of Shore Road in Somers Point and the 300 block of Royal Avenue in Linwood have tested positive for West Nile, the county said Wednesday in a news release. It was the second positive West Nile sample from Royal Avenue.

A second positive sample of eastern equine encephalitis was found on Green Bank Road in Mullica Township, the county said.

No human cases of either disease have been reported.

County officials continue to conduct mosquito surveillance and implement additional control meas

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