Health officials said yesterday they had found mosquitoes infected with the West Nile virus in the southern half of Central Park, Hamilton Heights and in College Point, Queens.

The peak season for finding mosquitoes infected with West Nile is normally around the second week of August, Dr. Andreadis said.

Malaria, which kills about three million people a year worldwide, is transmitted by mosquitoes infected with parasites.

He also used to take me into the insect house, where he kept mosquitoes infected with tropical diseases.

In Newtown, where it was one mosquito infected with the virus last year, officials wrote to the residents who live near where it was found on Key Rock Road in the Hattertown area.

Malaria is caused by a bite from a mosquito infected with parasites.

THE recent rain and hot muggy weather has mixed up an alluring soup for mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus to breed and bite, state health officials said this past week.

The term on the right of the equation is the product of the average number of humans infected by a mosquito and the average number of mosquitoes infected by a human.

In mosquitoes infected with Plasmodium, vitellogenesis may be manipulated by the parasites to reduce fecundity (Hurd, 2003).

So far this year, no mosquitoes infected with the virus have been trapped in Connecticut or Rhode Island or in Nassau County, health officials said today.