Environmental Ministry officials announced that mosquitoes infected with west nile virus were discovered in northern areas along the Carmel coast. The Health Ministry as a result is calling on local government to take appropriate action to avoid the spread of the illness, which in severe cases may lead to serious infection and death.
The public is urged wherever possible to eliminate standing pools of water that attract the mosquitoes and spread the infection, and to report large numbers of mosquitoes in any one area to local heath officials.
A number of cases of west nile were reported in the Emek Chafer area.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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But Eretz Yisroel is on the east of the Nile.