MIDDLETOWN, Md. - Mosquitoes collected at Middletown Park off Coblentz Road tested positive for West Nile virus, according to a press release from the Frederick County Health Department.
There have been no confirmed human cases of West Nile virus in Frederick County since 2003, and there have been no confirmed cases in Maryland this year, according to the release.
The test results from the mosquitoes marked the first 2006 confirmed report of the virus in mosquitoes in Frederick County, according to the release.
West Nile virus is spread to humans by bites from infected mosquitoes, but cannot be spread from one person to another person, according to the release. Birds cannot directly transmit the virus to humans, according to the health department.