West Nile Virus Reemerges as Mosquito Tests Positive in Houston Subdivision On 7/3/21 at 1:37 AM EDT A painful and somewhat deadly virus carried by mosquitoes has resurfaced in a Houston suburb. The West Nile virus has been tested positive in a mosquito trapped at a new construction site in Sugar Land, just on the west side of Houston. And it's just in time for a full summer of heat, humidity and threatening hurricanes. It also comes as the world tries to shoo away the COVID-19 coronavirus that lurked all of 2020 and most of 2021 so far. The captured mosquito that tested positive was in the New Territory subdivision on Morrisons Place, according to KHOU, the CBS affiliate in the Bayou City. Of the mosquitos trapped, at least one has tested positive for the West Nile virus so far.