{"id":53377,"date":"2025-08-08T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53377\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:41:09","slug":"province-of-manitoba-to-spray-for-mosquitoes-in-winkler-with-west-nile-risk-high-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53377\/","title":{"rendered":"Province of Manitoba to spray for mosquitoes in Winkler with West Nile risk high &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The province of Manitoba will begin spraying for mosquitoes in the city of Winkler, Man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officials say there\u2019s been a high number of adult culex tarsalis mosquitoes detected and there is evidence of a high rate of mosquitoes infected with <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/west-nile-virus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Nile virus<\/a> in Winkler.<\/p>\n<p>The fogging will take place in a three-kilometre extended zone around the city and will happen overnight between Friday and Saturday and next Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The extended zone includes the communities of Reinfeld, Chortitz, and Schanzenfeld.<\/p>\n<p>The risk for potential human exposure to the virus is considered very high in Winkler and high in the Southern Health region.<\/p>\n<p>No human cases have been confirmed in Manitoba this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'West Nile Virus due to spread to remote areas of Quebec due to climate change'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/quebec.city.west.nile.mignacca_.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:26<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWest Nile Virus due to spread to remote areas of Quebec due to climate change\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The province of Manitoba will begin spraying for mosquitoes in the city of Winkler, Man. Officials say there\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,519,27916],"class_list":["post-53377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-trending","tag-west-nile-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}