The hotter the summer here and the closer to drought conditions, the higher potential for mosquito populations to grow, along with heightened concern for mosquito-borne infections, particularly West Nile Virus (WNV). WNV was introduced to the United States in 1999, and has become the prevailing mosquito-borne disease in the nation. Colorado was particularly hard hit by the untreatable disease in 2022 and 2023; in the latter year one Custer County was hospitalized and in long recovery, the first case since 2007.   And the Colorado Department of Public Health announced on July 25 that a man died in Boulder County from the Virus. Nationally, since its introduction WNV infection has caused over 30,000 cases of the severe, neuroinvasive form of the diseaseâWest Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease,…
