Dallas Begins Spraying

Thursday night, Dallas County, Texas began spraying a pesticide known as Duet, in hopes of ending the threat of West Nile Virus.

Just this year they city has seen over two hundred cases of the disease, ten of which have resulted in deaths.

Statewide there have been more than double the amount of cases, and seventeen deaths.

Nationally around seven hundred have been infected, with around thirty having died.

Seventeen hundred people signed a petition to keep the city from spraying, but nowhere near enough to stop the city from doing so.

Low flying twin engine planes will spray over 100,000 acres of the Dallas metro, by the end of the night.

As a precaution, residents have been advised to stay indoors, with windows closed, during the spraying.