Marquette County Health Department

West Nile Virus Information

 

The Marquette County Health Department’s Division of Environmental Health is no longer submitting bird or animal specimens from Marquette County for testing. Citizens are encouraged to continue reporting sightings of dead or sick birds or animals via Internet at the State's Website or you may call the Michigan Department of Community Health toll free at 1-888-668-0869.

Find out more: Fight the Bite! - ways to reduce your West Nile Virus risk.

West Nile Virus: About Bats, Mosquitoes and Rabies

A printable PDF version of the personal health West Nile Virus Fact Sheet.  You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view and print this document.  If you do not already have it installed you can download it free from their website: http://www.adobe.com

State Information:

For Michigan specific information check out the following:

Welcome to Michigan's WNV Website

West Nile Virus 2003 Response Plan

National Information:

For current information from the CDC please click on this link:        

West Nile Virus Information

The Weather Channel also provides an area specific Mosquito Activity Forecast.

 

Date last updated:  03/31/2005