Posted on 06/20/2016 3:40:00 PM PDT by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — Cochise County has not seen a case of either the Zika or West Nile virus this season, but conditions will soon be changing which will bring more chances for mosquitos to flourish, and health officials are responding.
County health officials have been trapping mosquitoes and sending them to state labs for testing, which have so far yielded no positive cases, said county Public Health Emergency Preparedness Director Elizabeth Lueck.
“The main point here is that right now, we don’t have Zika or West Nile in Cochise County,” she
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