The measure OK'd yesterday has a long way to go before it becomes effective. It is just the start of a series of congressional approvals needed before the budget is adopted in the fall. The West Nile virus last year sickened 62 people in New York. Of those, seven died, including a New Rochelle woman. The virus, which appeared in the Western Hemisphere for the first time last year, circulates between birds and mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes transmit it to humans.
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