There's a new warning for student-athletes and spectators in a swath of Massachusetts communities where the risk of West Nile virus is now elevated.

After two cases were reported in the Boston area this week, the risk level for the virus is now high in 20 municipalities in Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex counties, and .

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"We'll be meeting with our athletic and nursing staff as well as city health department officials. We'll make sure that notifications go home to families, so that they're well aware of what preparations that they should take," said Peter Cushing, superintendent of Beverly Public Schools.

District officials may send out those notices as early as Friday about the virus spread by mosquitoes, which are mo

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