West Nile Virus (WNV) Update - January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010

129 humans (5 deaths) and 907 mosquito pools.
County Human1 Equine Mosquito Other2
Albany 0 0 0 0
Allegany 0 0 0 0
Broome 0 0 0 0
Cattaraugus 0 0 0 0
Cayuga 0 0 0 0
Chautauqua 0 0 0 0
Chemung 0 0 0 0
Chenango 1(0)3 0 0 0
Clinton 0 0 0 0
Columbia 0 0 0 0
Cortland 0 0 0 0
Delaware 0 0 0 0
Dutchess 0 0 0 0
Erie 0 0 23 0
Essex 0 0 0 0
Franklin 0 0 0 0
Fulton 0 0 0 0
Genesee 0 0 0 0
Greene 0 0 0 0
Hamilton 0 0 0 0
Herkimer 0 0 0 0
Jefferson 0 0 0 0
Lewis 0 0 0 0
Livingston 0 0 0 0
Madison 0 0 1 0
Monroe 0 0 0 0
Montgomery 0 0 0 0
Nassau 57(3) 0 145 0
Niagara 0 0 0 0
Oneida 0 0 0 0
Onondaga 0 0 1 0
Ontario 0 0 0 0
Orange 0 0 2 0
Orleans 0 0 0 0
Oswego 0 0 0 0
Otsego 0 0 0 0
Putnam 0 0 0 0
Rensselaer 0 0 0 0
Rockland 0 0 34 0
Saratoga 0 0 0 0
Schenectady 0 0 0 0
Schoharie 0 0 0 0
Schuyler 0 0 0 0
Seneca 0 0 0 0
St. Lawrence 0 0 0 0
Steuben 0 0 0 0
Suffolk 25(1) 0 295 0
Sullivan 0 0 0 0
Tioga 0 0 0 0
Tompkins 0 0 0 0
Ulster 0 0 0 0
Warren 0 0 0 0
Washington 0 0 0 0
Wayne 0 0 0 0
Westchester 4(0) 0 13 0
Wyoming 0 0 0 0
Yates 0 0 0 0
NYS - Excluding NYC (Total) 87(4) 0 514 0
Bronx (NYC) 7(0) 0 77 0
Brooklyn (NYC) 6(0) 0 36 0
Manhattan (NYC) 6(0) 0 19 0
Queens (NYC) 14(1) 0 164 0
Staten Island (NYC) 9(0) 0 97 0
New York City (Total) 42(1) 0 393 0
New York State (Total) 129(5) 0 907 0

1 Number in parenthesis indicates number of deaths.

2 WNV-positive birds are not listed.

3 Infection likely acquired out of county.

  • Not all animals testing positive are necessarily ill or symptomatic of WNV infection. Some specimens are tested only for surveillance purposes.