The virus was found in a pool of adult mosquitoes collected Sept. 14 in a trap at the Innis Arden Golf Club, on the Greenwich-Stamford line.

And we sat in the sorrow for a while, until the mosquitoes collected around us and chased us indoors.

Rhode Island declared a state of emergency in Westerly two weeks ago after the virus was found in 1 of every 100 mosquitoes collected in samplings.

Pinpointing the location of a West Nile outbreak is often slow and difficult because identifying mosquitoes collected in the field typically takes days.

Officials in Suffolk reported yesterday that the virus had been confirmed in 13 samples of infected mosquitoes collected on July 17 and in 12 additional birds.

The extraordinary steps were taken yesterday after officials learned that a sample of mosquitoes collected on July 12 in Central Park, near 63rd Street and Fifth Avenue, had tested positive for the virus.

The virus was discovered in a group of mosquitoes collected on June 25 in Saw Mill Marsh, Staten Island.

It was first discovered and isolated in 1943, from mosquitoes collected in Kern County, California.

In a survey on Pate Island in Kenya in 1956, 98 per cent of mosquitoes collected in houses using a pyrethrum spray catch were Skusea pembaensis.

Sagiyama virus is an arthropod borne virus recovered from mosquitoes collected during July and August 1956 and 1957 near Tokyo, Japan.