(CARLYLE, IL) — The Clinton County Health Department has been notified that a dead bird, collected in rural Carlyle IL, submitted to the state laboratory on October 6, 2016 has tested positive for the West Nile Virus. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) maintains a sophisticated disease surveillance system to monitor animals and insects that can potentially carry the virus: dead crows, robins, blue jays, mosquitoes and horses. Mosquitoes can either carry the virus or get it by feeding on infected birds.