To decrease the mosquito population and risk of infection, the health department will be conducting fogging Wednesday and Thursday.

As people spend more time outside as weather warms up around the Louisville area, health officials are sharing ways to stay away from mosquitoes. 

More mosquitoes have tested positive for West Nile virus in seven more zip codes in the Louisville area, so here's how you can avoid being bitten. 

More mosquitoes have tested positive for West Nile virus in seven more zip codes in the Louisville area.

One person has died after contracting the West Nile virus in Louisville, according to the city's health department.

No human cases of West Nile have been reported in Indiana this year, but 80 percent of people infected with the virus do not develop symptoms.

Officials say no human cases of the West Nile virus have been reported in Louisville so far this year.

Typically, mosquitoes breed in areas that have standing, stagnant water, which has become a common sight in the area after multiple rounds of heavy rain. 

Officials say two mosquitoes were found in Corydon and Milltown, Indiana.

They can carry the West Nile virus.