Break out the bug spray! Serious illness prompts mosquito study in the Sea to Sky region, today in The Watershed: https://www.lionsbaywatershed.ca/post/sea-to-sky-mosquito-study-underway
The Watershed · Sea to Sky Mosquito Study UnderwayReports of serious illness prompt investigationVancouver Coastal Health (VCH) announced this week that they are partnering with the BC Centre for Disease Control, the Líl̓wat and Squamish Nations and the University of BC to undertake a study of the local mosquito population and the viruses they carry in the Sea to Sky region. The project has been initiated in response to four reported cases of mosquito-borne illness in 2024. In each case, patients were diagnosed with encephalitis — the swelling
