http://mix108.com Wed, 22 May 2013 22:30:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://mix108.com/first-confirmed-case-of-west-nile-virus-of-2012-appears-in-st-louis-county/ http://mix108.com/first-confirmed-case-of-west-nile-virus-of-2012-appears-in-st-louis-county/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:53:43 +0000 Nick Cooper http://mix108.com/?p=75061 After an incredibly wet spring and subsequent heat wave, conditions are ripe for a bumper mosquito crop in 2012. This has health officials worried that there will be an uptick in mosquito-transmitted diseases like West Nile Virus. The first case of this virus has just popped up in St. Louis County, beginning what could be a busy season.

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