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Mosquitoes flying free as health departments focus on virus
Asian Tiger Mosquitos are kept in a container for examination in a laboratory of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute on December 02, 2019 in Greifswald, Germany. Bug spray, swollen welts, citronella. It’s mosquito season.And in a normal year, the health department serving Ohio’s Delaware County would be setting out more than 90 mosquito traps a week — black tubs of stagnant water with nets designed to ensnare the little buggers.But this year, because of COVID-19, the mosquitoes will fly free.The coronavirus has pulled the staffers away, so they haven’t set a single trap yet this year, according to Dustin Kent, the program manager of the residential services unit.