The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on August 16 that West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes collected in Hull. Insects with the virus also were found in other communities across the South Shore.

Mosquitoes bite during the day and night, and live both indoors and outdoors. To protect against insect bites, wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants, and use insect repellent with any of these EPA-registered active ingredients: DEET, picaridin, IR3535, oil of lemon eucalyptus, para-menthane-diol, or 2-undecanone. Indoors, use an insect fogger and use window and door screens; outdoors, remove any standing water and use insect spray to treat areas were mosquitoes nest.

For additional information, visit www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-arbovirus-update.

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