With abundant rains, warm weather and the Inland area’s first finding of West Nile virus, local officials are warning of an intense season for mosquitoes and the deadly disease they carry.

The area’s first West Nile-infected mosquitoes were found last month in southwest Chino, near the border of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, said Brian Reisinger, spokesman for the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District in Ontario.

That’s 10 weeks earlier than the district’s first detection last year, he said. Read More…