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- Sun Country Health Region changes bursary policy
- Sun Country Health Region fires Cal Tant
- Flu clinics will begin on October 12
- Mosquito pool in the Estevan area tests positive for the West Nile Virus
- Mosquitoes in the Estevan area test positive for West Nile
- Culex tarsalis mosquitos have been trapped in the Sun Country Health Region
- Culex tarsalis mosquitoes found in Sun Country Health Region
The risk of contracting the West Nile Virus is decreasing in the Sun Country Health Region (SCHR), but the region's chief medical officer, Dr. Shauna Hudson, wants to remind people that they still need to take precautions in September.
“There aren’t nearly as many Culex tarsalis mosquitoes now as in late July and early August but if we have warmer weather these mosquitoes will continue biting,” she says.
“People who work outside and families who are out enjoying our parks and lakes need still need to take precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, especially at dusk and dawn.”
The precautions include wearing protective clothing and using an insect repellent.
Hudson also reports that the first reported cases of West Nile virus infection in Saskatchewan for 2010 are two residents of Sun Country Health Region. Both of these individuals had mild forms of the infection and are recovering.
The risk for West Nile virus infection was highest in Sun Country Health Region during the last week of July and the first two weeks of August. This was when the highest numbers of Culex tarsalis mosquitoes were caught in their surveillance traps and infected mosquitoes were identified.
Hudson said there could still be cases of West Nile from people who were infected in August.
