Health officials keep spraying to kill mosquitoes.
Aerial spraying to kill mosquitoes for eastern equine encephalitis continues. Lynn Sutfin of the Michigan Health Department says more was done last night in SW Michigan.
More is planned for the weekend, weather permitting.
Officials remind us, protect ourselves against mosquito bites. The disease, which is frequently fatal, is spread when a mosquito bites an infected bird, and the same mosquito then bites an animal or a human.
Aerial treatment will continue, depending on weather, until all areas of risk are treated or there is a hard frost sufficient to kill these mosquitos.
As of Oct. 2, EEE has been confirmed in nine people, with four fatalities. Cases are in Barry, Berrien, Calhoun, Cass, Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties. In addition, cases have occurred in 33 animals from 15 counties: Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Calhoun, Cass, Genesee, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lapeer, Livingston, Montcalm, Newaygo, St. Joseph and Van Buren. The mosquitos that spread EEE are still active and were caught in traps set Oct. 1 in southwest Michigan.