West Nile virus could return to Sask. this summer
It wouldn’t be a Saskatchewan summer without talk of West Nile virus.
The flu-like illness is transmitted through the Culex tarsalis mosquito and can be a major problem each season.
But it is difficult to predict summer-to-summer whether the risk is increased.
“What are the mosquitoes doing, what is the temperature doing, all of those factors weigh in to our assessment of the risk of transmission,” Dr. Denise Werker, Saskatchewan’s deputy chief medical health officer, explained.