The PA West Nile Virus Program Thursday announced the final mosquito and avian positivity counts for 2012 and national ranking. Updates to the human/equine case counts are included. The latest human case (25th) is a death from Philadelphia County.

Testing Results--

-- 25 human cases (28th in Nation)

-- 47 veterinary samples (3rd in Nation)

-- 3,409 infected mosquito samples (2nd in Nation)

-- 134 infected avian samples (3rd in Nation)

Surveillance and Control--

-- 75,183 mosquito control events

-- 28,621 samples taken

Public participation--

-- 2,056 complaints received

-- 156 educational events

-- 697 reported dead birds

The PA West Nile Virus program would like to thank all WNV partners and the broad public participation for the tremendous effort this year. It was because of this effort that kept the human case count 28th in the nation and not 2nd or 3rd.

10/15/2012