The death of an Interlake-area man in his 80s is the province's first West Nile virus-related death since 2008. Manitoba Health reported the incident on Friday, saying the man had West Nile virus neurological syndrome, a rare but more serious condition caused by the...
Wanted: An entomologist for the City of Winnipeg. Taz Stuart is no longer the city's top go-to bug man, officials said on Wednesday. "I can confirm Taz Stuart is no longer an employee of the City of Winnipeg," city spokesperson Steve West said in an e-mail. The quiet...
A Winnipeg-area woman in her 40s has the first human case of West Nile virus this year, Manitoba Health confirmed on Thursday. The province says the woman lives in the Winnipeg Health Region and has reported mild symptoms to date. It's believed she contracted the...
By Sarah Klein After temporarily halting mosquito fogging while the skeeter population dropped, the City of Winnipeg is firing the fogging trucks back up. Crews will be out tonight beginning at 9:30 p.m. to fog in 14 different Insect Management Areas, weather...
The City of Winnipeg says it gave residents plenty of time to apply for mosquito buffer zones around their property before crews hit the streets Sunday night. Many residents have been sounding off since the city began fogging for mosquitoes yesterday in 10 areas of...
The City of Winnipeg is finally ready to fog for nuisance mosquitoes. The city gave the 24-hour notice this morning to begin fogging on Sunday night. The latest city-wide trap count numbers were 138. To fog, the Adulticiding Factor Analysis (AFA) must be high, a...
A team of students and engineers from the University of Manitoba are helping track the worst areas in Winnipeg for mosquitoes with the help of a new smartphone app. "M Tracker" allows users to report how bad mosquitoes are in their specific neighbourhood and generate...
There aren't enough mosquitoes in the City of Winnipeg's traps to warrant fogging just yet. Taz Stuart, the city's entomologist, provided an update from his department on Tuesday, saying trap counts sit at 15. Twenty-five mosquitoes are needed to deploy fogging trucks...
Winnipeg could see a rise in the mosquito population over the next week if unfavourable weather conditions continue. City entomologist Taz Stuart on Tuesday said that while the trap count remains at one, the first generation of summer adult nuisance mosquitoes will...
About 160 City of Winnipeg staff are on standby to battle those pesky bugs. The City of Winnipeg announced the beginning of its surveillance and larviciding programs for 2013, and it calls for a balanced control approach including larviciding, biocontrols and residual...
The province will begin fogging for mosquitoes in Portage la Prairie to prevent the spread of the West Nile virus. Manitoba Health says recent surveillance on Culex tarsalis mosquito numbers and the proportion infected with West Nile virus has reached a level...
This summer’s first Culex tarsalis mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus has been found by Manitoba Health. The infected mosquitoes were found during the week of July 1 from adult mosquito traps near Portage la Prairie and the Sandy Bay First Nation. However, there...
