With recent rainfall and warming temperatures, many local residents have reported seeing a boom in the mosquito population during the past couple of weeks.
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, a number of people also have been asking if mosquitoes can spread the new coronovirus.
“My phone started blowing up this past Monday with people asking about mosquitoes,” said Monte Blackburn, Medical Arts Clinic director here.
The quick answer to the question is “No.”
“Everything I have found said it cannot,” Blackburn said Friday after repeatedly doing research on the subject this past week. “There wasn’t anything I saw that said it ...