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Antonino Bella, a senior researcher at the Infectious Diseases Department of the Italian National Institute of Health, looks at a map of Italy showing provinces with confirmed circulation of West Nile virus in vectors, animals, and humans during the 2026 season, in Rome, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Antonino Bella, senior researcher at the Infectious Diseases Department of the Italian National Institute of Health, checks a map of Italy showing provinces with confirmed circulation of West Nile virus (WNV) in vectors, animals, and humans for the 2026 season, in Rome, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Francesco Severino, a senior researcher in medical entomology, places a net over a cage containing mosquitoes inside a laboratory at the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Mosquitoes are kept in a laboratory enclosure for research into mosquito-borne diseases at the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Francesco Severino, a senior researcher in medical entomology, moves a cage containing mosquitoes inside a laboratory at the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
West Nile virus has been detected in Delaware for the first time in 2026 after routine testing found the virus in a sentinel chicken flock in eastern Kent County, according to DNREC.
Two Delaware horses have been put down after contracting West Nile Virus. Horse owners and residents are being urged to take immediate precautions.
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The first Delawarean to contract West Nile virus in 2024 is recovering after being hospitalized, according to state health officials. The Delaware Department of Agriculture and Delaware Division of Public Health confirm that person lives in New Castle County.