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PROVO, Utah (AP) -- West Nile virus has been detected in mosquito pools at Lehi and south Provo and in a sentinel chicken from Duchesne County, health officials said.
The virus previously had been found in Salt Lake and Washington counties and at Goshen in southern Utah County.
No human cases have been identified yet this year, but "it just reminds us to take precautions to protect ourselves and our families," Bob Mower, mosquito abatement division director for the Utah Public Health Laboratory, said Monday.
Last year there were 52 human cases of the disease, with one death, that of an elderly man in Uintah County.
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