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1st IL Birds of 2011 Test Positive for West Nile
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The first birds in Illinois have tested positive for West Nile virus.

The Illinois Department of Public Health said the birds were found in northern Illinois in LaSalle County. The two birds were collected June 8 in LaSalle and Sandwich. The positive results came back Thursday.

Last year the first birds testing positive were found earlier in the season, on May 13 in Carroll and St. Clair counties. The first West Nile virus positive mosquito samples were reported Tuesday in Tazewell County.

Thirty of 102 Illinois counties had a positive West Nile virus bird, mosquito, horse or human case in 2010.

There were 61 human West Nile cases last year in Illinois.
West Nile virus is transmitted through mosquito bite or eating an infected bird.

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