INDIANAPOLIS - State health officials say six Indiana residents have died of West Nile virus and more than 60 people have been sickened.
The deaths have been reported in Marion, Allen, Vanderburgh and Hendricks counties.
Marion County mosquito control biologist Jim Erwin tells television station WTHR that this West Nile season has been one of the busiest on record. He says the mosquitoes will pose a threat until the state sees its first hard freeze.
A hard freeze occurs when temperatures are in the upper 20s. The Indianapolis Star reports temperatures aren't expected to get that low in the next week.
Health officials recorded one death from the disease in each of the last two years. The first human cases in Indiana occurred in 2002, when 11 people died.
Read More
Indiana Capital Chronicle: Who votes? Here’s who decides Indiana’s elections
By Indiana Capital Chronicle / YesterdayIndiana voter turnout rates have long lain among the lowest in the country. Despite that, some Hoosier voters cast ballots year after year.
Over 3,000 Cardinals join the Ball State family of alumni following commencement
By Ella Howell / 3 days agoThe Quad filled with approximately 3,000 graduating Cardinals and their loved ones the morning of May 4 in preparation for the 198th Ball State University Commencement.
