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His family says he went from healthy to brain dead in just nine days. >> if somebody is over 50 years of age, under 15 years of age, theyre not only more susceptible to it, but also more susceptible to getting serious infection. >> reporter: some communities are stepping up air and ground spraying and urging affected areas to cancel outdoor activities, especially for children around dusk until the first frost of fall. nearly one-third of the eee cases with brain symptoms are fatal and many survi...

Mosquitos are most active. texas a&m university down in college station, fogging parts of campus after infected mosquitos were found. we should tell you none of the 51,000 students at a&m have been infected but the health department does not want to take any chances. >> we have so much shrubbery, foleyage and what not and standing puddles of water, stagnant water. probably overall a good idea. >> that is a little scary but theyre taking actions to get it taken care of. >> reporter: aside from sp...

White rock lake here in dallas. last night two different planes taking to the sky. you can see from the video. about 106,000 acres were sprayed. more areas scheduled for tonight and into the weekend. and gregg, you asked about the success rate. well they say that the success rate of killing off the infected mosquitoes with this method is much higher than traditional ground spraying. listen. >> i know that last year after an application in kentucky that we did after the flooding there, we had an ...

Populations and also causes more of this deadly virus to build up in the glands of the mosquitoes. this is the first time that dallas has sprayed insecticide from the air since 1966. last night two planes taking to the skies over the zip codes hardest hit and the success rate we understand of killing infected mosquitos is high with aerial spraying versus traditional ground spraying. >> i know that last year after an application in kentucky that we did after the flooding there we had an 88% kill ...

>> bret: for a lot of people, summer is coming to a close quickly. but many folks in texas and especially around dallas are being urged to stay indoors. because of the risk of west nile virus. correspondent casey stegall is in dallas tonight. >> insecticides have not been dropped by airplane over dallas since 1966. but conventional ground spraying has been going on for weeks and has not done much to stop spread of the dangerous west nile virus. >> the time that we wait can be counted in addition...

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