With mosquito season underway, Montgomery County mosquito abatement teams are working on countywide testing efforts to monitor for diseases such as West Nile Virus. However, residents can also help prevent the growth of mosquitoes by eliminating areas for mosquitoes to multiply.

What residents need to know

Justin Fausek, director of Montgomery County Mosquito Control , said so far in mosquito season–which runs from May to October– there has only been one sample of West Nile Virus found countywide and no human cases.

"We set traps for those mosquitoes all throughout the county every week, and we bring the mosquitoes that we catch back to our lab, and we identify the species that we collect, and then if they are a species that can carry and transmit disease in that area we have them tes

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