Orchard City residents upset over new federal regulations that have brought an end to the town's popular and successful aerial mosquito spraying program are blaming the Environmental Protection Agency for having to live with the constant fear of West Nile Virus infection from insect bites, and for new human cases of WNV in Orchard City this year.

Town trustee Jan Gage told the DCI in an e-mail, "We must figure out a way to get the EPA to allow aerial spraying before more people die!"

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