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Health Department to Spray for Mosquitos in Queens, Staten Island Monday

By Dusica Malesevic | July 29, 2016 4:34pm | Updated on August 1, 2016 8:23am
 The Health Department will spray in Queens and Staten Island next week as part of the city's effort to prevent mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika and West Nile.
The Health Department will spray in Queens and Staten Island next week as part of the city's effort to prevent mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika and West Nile.
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NEW YORK CITY — The New York City Department of Health is continuing its spray campaign to prevent mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika and West Nile, focusing on parts of Queens and Staten Island next week.

The spraying was originally slated for Thursday but was rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 1, according to the Health Department.

Weather permitting, an adulticide will be sprayed out of a truck in parts of College Point, Flushing and Whitestone in Queens between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and parts of Staten Island that will include Annandale, Eltingville, Emerson Hill, Great Kills, Heartland Village, Huguenot, Lighthouse Hill, Prince’s Bay, and Todt Hill, according to the Health Department.

The Queens neighborhoods are being sprayed with the adulticide — a pesticide that targets adult mosquitos — because of a significant presence of Aedes albopictus, or Asian tiger mosquitos, found in traps, according to a Health Department press release.

While this type of mosquito can carry the Zika virus, they are not responsible for the current outbreak in Latin and Central America, according to the release. That culprit is Aedes aegypti, which has never been found in New York City, according to the Health Department.

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In Staten Island, there has been an uptick in West Nile virus activity and a high number of mosquitoes in the Culex family, according to the Health Department.

The Health Department sprayed parts of the city with larvicide this week.

Last Friday, the city had its first reported case of a baby born with Zika-related birth defects.