The West Nile situation continues; some of the latest news comes from Colusa County, where property owners are getting ready to decide whether or not to apply mosquito-fighting techniques for their farms and homes.

Landholders must make up their minds until mid-October on supporting a new property tax that would cover the implementation of the service. If approved, the tax would have home owners pay $69 annually and 58 cents per farmland acre.

Last year, Colusa County recorded two cases of people sickened by the West Nile virus, out of which one died. 

Other news refer to the tests which are being performed on mosquitoes for finding the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile viruses. According to Jason Stull, of the New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services Bureau of Disease Control and Health Statistics, his office has conducted tests on about 4,000 mosquito pools all over the state and there were no positive results for neither EEE nor the West Nile virus.

Jason Stull said even though the weather is cooling down, people must continue to be very careful; he added that until the first frost comes, the risk would still be there.

Last week, health officials from San Diego County reported that a group of mosquitoes found in the vecinity of Oceanside Boulevard and El Camino Real has tested out positive for the West Nile virus. The entire area has been treated with chemicals and searched for locating the site where the mosquitos might have come from.