Rhode Island targets mosquitoes in South County as anxiety around viruses grows

THAT STATE'S FIRST CASE OF TRIPLE E IN TEN YEARS. GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. I'M DAN JANICKE. >>GOOD EVENING. I'M PATRICE WOOD. TWO RHODE ISLAND TOWNS ARE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE. SO THE STATE IS DOING A TWO DAY AERIAL ATTACK TO KILL THE INSECTS WHERE THEY LIVE. NBC TEN S ERIN COOGAN REPORTS FROM SOUTH KINGSTOWN. >>WELL, GUYS, CHECK IT OUT. >>CREWS ARE CURRENTLY LOADING A HELICOPTER FULL OF LARVICIDE HERE AT THE RICHMOND AIRPORT THAT'S GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTED OVER GREAT SWAMP IN SOUTH KINGSTOWN AND CHAPMAN SWAMP IN WESTERLY. ATTACKING THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM WHERE IT STARTS IN THE STILL WATERS WHERE THEY HATCH AND GROW. >>WE'RE TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE AND PREVENT THESE BABIES FROM EMERGING FROM THE WATER TO BECOME ADULTS. >>USING HELICOPTERS TO DROP A SAND LIKE INSECTICIDE CALLED BTI ACROSS NEARLY 3000 ACRES OF STATE WETLANDS. D-E-M OFFICIALS SAY KILLING THE LARVAE AVOIDS HAVING TO SPRAY CHEMICALS TO KILL ADULT MOSQUITOES. THE BTI POSES NO RISK TO HUMANS PETS OR THE ENVIRONMENT WHEN IT'S DROPPED IT'S, YOU KNOW, THESE LITTLE THINGS THAT ARE DROPPED. STILL A PRECAUTIONARY CLOSURE OF THE SOUTH KINGSTOWN BIKE PATH NEAR THE KINGSTON AMTRAK STATION REMAINS IN PLACE UNTIL TREATMENT CONCLUDES ON SATURDAY. >>I THINK IT'S GREAT. I THINK WE SHOULD GET OUT AHEAD OF THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM. IT'S A VERY SOME OF THE DISEASES ARE VERY SERIOUS. >>OH YEAH. IT'S ALL OVER THE NEWS AND EVERYTHING. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE ALERTS UP ABOUT NOT GOING OUT AFTER DUSK AND EVERYTHING. >>D-E-M OFFICIALS SAY LARVICIDING HASN'T BEEN INITIATED BY THE STATE SINCE 2019, BUT IT COMES AS THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH JUST TWO WEEKS AGO ANNOUNCED THE FIRST REPORTED HUMAN CASE OF WEST NILE VIRUS THIS YEAR. WEEKLY TESTING ALSO REVEALED A HANDFUL OF NEW MOSQUITOES IN THE TREATMENT AREAS, TESTING POSITIVE FOR TRIPLE E, ANOTHER DANGEROUS VIRUS TO HUMANS AGAIN, AERIAL DROPS WILL CONTINUE TODAY INTO TOMORROW AND OVER THE COURSE OF THOSE TWO DAYS, THEY WILL DRO

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