Queens Focus Again of Spraying

The communities of Bayside, Whitestone, Douglaston, Woodside and Neponsit were targeted this week by fleets of City trucks spraying pesticides from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. as the mosquito season got into high gear.
The latest assault on the Culex pipiens mosquito was launched by the City when it discovered four dead birds that tested positive for West Nile Virus in Queens and three mosquito pools and one dead bird in Staten Island.
Dr. Neal L. Cohen, the Citys Health Commissioner, said "with new evidence of West Nile virus activity in areas of Queens not previously treated, we will expand our ground spraying activities in two new areas of Queens."
There were no new reports of human infection as the City redoubled its efforts to kill the virus-borne mosquitoes. Three elderly Staten Island residents have tested positive for the virus this year, Cohen said. All are being treated and are now resting at home.
Meanwhile, the Health Department revealed the first details of two West Nile patients who are recovering from the after effects of last years outbreak of the disease. One patient, Danuta Trojonowska is still limited to the interior of the New York United Hospital in Port Chester. She is still unable to walk after almost a year as an inpatient.
Trojanowska and Bob Benson both shared a similar experience — being among 62 people in the New York Metropolitan area sickened by the West Nile virus.