Kern County confirms first human case of West Nile virus this year. Health officials urge precautions against mosquito bites ...

The Kern County Public Health Department confirmed that Kern County has reported its first case of West Nile virus in 2025.

West Nile virus was first isolated from a patient from the West Nile district of northern Uganda, in Africa, in 1937. It came to the United States in 1999, and ...

Kern County's first case of West Nile virus in a person this year was detected recently, the Kern County Public Health Services Department said Friday.

Health officials report that there have been four confirmed cases of the virus in Kern County. 124 people have caught West Nile in California this year, with six dying from complications of the virus.

On June 13, Kern County Public Health announced the first positive sample of the West Nile virus has been found in a mosquito. There have been no reported cases of a human contracting West Nile ...

Three dead birds in Sacramento County were found to have contracted the virus as activity ramped up in Placer County.

Los Angeles County has detected mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus for the first time this year. The mosquitoes were recovered from a trap in the Winnetka neighborhood of the San Fernando ...

The Kern County Public Health has confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus (WNV) in Kern County for the 2025 ...

Kern County’s first human case of the year of mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus has been confirmed, Kern County Public Health Services said Friday. The department did not say where the person lived ...