Last year saw 69 cases across the state, including six in Lake County, according to data from the Illinois Department of ...

A batch of mosquitoes in St. Louis County tested positive for West Nile virus, the first time the disease has appeared in the ...

The Lake County Health Department reported the first human case of West Nile virus in Lake County for the year. The infected resident is in their 70s and became sick in early July, health officials ...

The case this year is the earliest detection in nearly a decade. The virus carried by mosquitoes poses the greatest risk to people over 65 and the immunocompromised.

Health officials in Lake County, Illinois, have confirmed the county’s first human case of West Nile Virus (WNV) this year.

Three college students are spending their summer as interns with the Will County Health Department in Joliet to help test ...

So far this year, 50 cases of the disease have been reported in at least 16 states. Body camera footage shows a flash mob of teens taking over an Illinois pool Writers Guild Calls for Investigation ...

Two people in Adams County have tested positive for West Nile Virus, which has seen a significant increase in mosquitoes in ...

The McLean County Health Department is reporting the first mosquito pool in the county to test positive for West Nile virus ...