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NEW BEDFORD — New Bedford Health Department, working closely with the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is again this year conducting an annual monitoring program to track the potential threat from EEE and WNV carrying mosquitoes...

The New Bedford Health Department, working closely with the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is again this year conducting an annual monitoring program to track the potential threat from EEE and WNV carrying mosquitoes...

The New Bedford Health Department, working closely with the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, is again this year conducting an annual monitoring program to track the potential threat from EEE and WNV carrying mosquitoes...

The New Bedford Health Department--working closely with the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health—is again this year conducting an annual monitoring program to track the potential threat from EEE and WNV carrying mosquitoes...

New Bedford's parks will be the target of ground spraying by the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project. The spraying will take place early Thursday morning, between 2am and sunrise at Buttonwood Park, Brooklawn Park, Fort Tabor, Hazelwood Park, Riverside Park, Clasky Park, Ashley Park and the Poor Farm area, weather permitting...

EEE has now been found in mosquitoes in both New Bedford and East Freetown.

There will be spraying done early Friday morning to help reduce the mosquito population, and hopefully to dramatically reduce the risk of being infected with West Nile, or EEE.

Last Friday was a cold one at night, but not yet enough to put all the mosquitoes into permanent hibernation for the winter.

"Hurry up!  Get in the house," I bark at my kids as they get out of the car.  "Quick!  Before a mosquito gets you!"  My kids must think mosquitoes are like the bogeyman.  It's hard to remember when exactly we got here.  When we were kids, we had to come home when the street lights came on...