The Department of Environmental Protection Friday announced positive mosquito results for West Nile Virus have been found in Columbia Borough, East Hempfield, Elizabethtown, Lancaster Townships, Lancaster County and Buffalo Township, Union County.

Other positive mosquito results have been found in these other counties this season-- Adams, Allegheny, Beaver, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Cambria, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Greene, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Luzerne, Manchester, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Westmoreland and York.

For more information on the West Nile Virus prevention efforts in Pennsylvania, visit the West Nile Virus website.

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