Preventive mosquito fogging to take place in Winkler, Man. due to West Nile concerns

The metropolis of Winkler, Man., is astir to get fogged for mosquitoes owed to concerns complete West Nile virus.

Although provincial officials opportunity location are nary cases of West Nile successful nan region, nan bid was fixed to spray for big culex tarsalis mosquitoes, which person been known to transportation nan illness.

Winkler Mayor Henry Siemens says there’s been a noticeable summation successful nan flying pests.

“We’ve been noticing successful our organization that nan counts person been going up, that they’re a nuisance,” Siemens told Global Winnipeg, “particularly first point successful nan greeting aliases later successful nan day.

“I deliberation what really drove nan province’s determination was nan truth that there’s a adjacent magnitude of these culex tarsalis mosquitoes successful nan area, and location is immoderate West Nile that’s been seen successful them. We’ve had nary group that person been affected. But I deliberation nan interest was we needed to get up of this earlier we did get to that place.”

The fogging will screen a three-kilometre area astir Winkler, which will see immoderate smaller neighbouring villages for illustration Reinfeld, Chortitz and Schanzenfeld.

Siemens said nan fog bid from nan state came arsenic a spot of a surprise, contempt nan accrued number of mosquitoes.

“Our extremity ever is to debar spraying, if astatine each possible, and that is why we do person a very robust larvicide program,” he said.

“We effort to enactment up of it. And we had been noticing an increase, a important summation successful mosquitoes complete nan past respective weeks. We were, though, conscionable a touch amazed that we were fixed a fog bid erstwhile we asked for immoderate further details.

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“The truth (is) that these mosquitoes are a importantly precocious count … and location is immoderate West Nile indicators there. Again, thing successful people, which is really good. And we don’t want it to get to that place.”

Siemens says nan metropolis supports nan province’s decision, but its extremity aft nan fogging is complete is to proceed to attraction connected larviciding efforts to forestall this problem from happening successful future.

Residents are advised to enactment wrong and adjacent their doors and windows during spraying, which is expected to begin Thursday evening, depending connected upwind conditions.