Two Queens residents have tested positive for West Nile virus, New York City health officials announced Friday. One patient was diagnosed with West Nile neuroinvasive disease and is currently hospitalized with a brain infection. The other was briefly hospitalized with West Nile fever and has since been released.

NYC reports its first human West Nile virus cases of the season, with two individuals from Queens testing positive.

Two New Yorkers have been diagnosed with West Nile virus, the first human cases in New York City this year, according to city health officials. The New York City Health Department said both cases were in residents from Queens,