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October 9, 1999                                    Contact Mary Landrigan(914)637-4715

The Westchester County Department of Health announced that the Centers for Disease Control has confirmed that a crow from North Castle has tested positive for the West Nile-like virus. This is the first confirmation of the West Nile-like virus in the northern part of Westchester County.

The Westchester County Department of Health has issued the mosquito spraying schedule for the period Saturday, October 9 through Friday, Oct 15, 1999 for the northern part of Westchester County. Mosquito spraying will be conducted starting at 6:00 p.m. expecting to be completed by 9 p.m, conditions permitting.

If mosquito spraying cannot be conducted on a given evening due to adverse weather conditions, the entire schedule will be shifted to begin on the next available evening. For example, those communities scheduled for Monday would drop back to Tuesday; those scheduled for Tuesday would drop back to Wednesday, etc. Updated schedules will be made available on a daily basis through the media, the County website www.westchestergov.com, the Health Department website, www.westchestergov.com/health and the Encephalitis Hotline, 285-2032.

The current schedule is as follows:

Saturday evening, October 9:

Communities bordered by I-287 and the Hutchinson River Parkway on the northern border and east of the Bronx River Parkway to the Long Island Sound.

This includes the communities of Mount Vernon, Pelham, Pelham Manor, New Rochelle, Eastchester, Bronxville, Tuckahoe, Scarsdale, Larchmont, the town and village of Mamaroneck, the city of Rye, Port Chester, and parts of White Plains and Harrison.

                            Sunday evening, October 10:

Communities bordered on the north and east by Croton Point Park, Route 9A, Taconic State Parkway, Route 22 and Cooney Hill Road to the Connecticut State line; bordered on the south by I-287 and the Hudson River to the west.

This area includes the communities of Sleepy Hollow, Briarcliff Manor, and parts of Tarrytown, Ossining, Mount Pleasant, North Castle, Greenburgh ,Harrison and White Plains.

Communities bordered by the Croton River, and the New Croton Reservoir to the north; I-684 to the east; Route 9A to the west; and the Kensico Reservoir to the south.

This area includes the communities of New Castle, Mount Kisco, Pleasantville, and parts of North Castle, Bedford, Mt. Pleasant, Yorktown and Cortlandt.

Tuesday evening, October 12:

Communities bordered to the north by Route 35, to the east and south by the Connecticut state line and and to the west by I-684.

This area includes the communities of Pound Ridge, parts of Bedford, Lewisboro and North Castle.

Communities bordered to the north by the Putnam County line, east to the Taconic Parkway, west to the Hudson River and the Croton Reservior, and south to the Croton River.

This area includes the communities of Peekskill, Buchanan, Croton, most of Cortlandt and the northwest section of Yorktown

Thursday evening, October 14:

The area bounded by the Putnam County line to the north, Taconic Parkway to the east, the Hudson River to the west, and the Croton Reservois and the Croton River to the south.

This includes the communities of Somers, a small part of Lewisboro and the east sections of Yorktown.

Friday, October 15, 1999

The area bounded by the Putnam County line to the north, the Connecticut state line to the east, Route 35 to the south and I-684 to the south.

This includes the communities of North Salem and parts of Lewisboro and Bedford.