A resident, 73, of the city of Yonkers in New York has been confirmed to have contracted the West Nile Virus recently. It is the first case of the deadly mosquito virus in Westchester County this year.

The report found that the man has been hospitalized. The area within and around the home of the man has undergone a local environmental review, which was carried out by the county Health Department. Nonetheless, no hints of mosquito breeding activity have been found.

Still, the area catch basins have been retreated.

Starting in mid-July, six positive mosquito batches in all have this year been discovered in the county. In comparison to the present figure, a total of 29 positive pools along with four human cases were reported the previous year.

As per the findings, the residents are being urged to be careful enough to monitor as well as follow measures of removing standing water on their property.

Experts said that this year, many mosquito prevention efforts were made to eventually larvicide more than 40,000 street catch basins. Larviciding hints killing mosquito larvae by different measures, including sluicing or intermittent irrigation.

"West Nile mosquito activity in Westchester so far is much less than last year", affirmed deputy commissioner for environmental health, Rick Morrissey.