EVANSVILLE – A Vanderburgh County woman has died from West Nile virus, and cases of the mosquito-borne illness have increased so much locally that the county now ranks among the top 10 in the United States for reported human cases.

Because of all that, the Vanderburgh Health Department "is advising the public to take precautions against mosquito bites," administrator Joe Gries wrote in a news release Thursday morning.

"Due to drought-like conditions and warmer weather in September and continuing in October, the risk of mosquitoes transmitting the disease will continue until conditions change," the release states.

The woman who died from West Nile hasn't been publicly identified. According to the Indiana Department of Health's mosquito-borne illness dashboard , she was between 60 and 6

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