by admin | Sep 4, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
ZIKA VIRUS (45): WORLDWIDE, WHO, RESEARCH, COMMENT ************************************************** A ProMED-mail post <http://www.promedmail.org> ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases <http://www.isid.org> ...
by admin | Aug 11, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
Invitation to Bid Notice is given that the Board of Commissioners for the Lee County Mosquito Control District and the Lee County Hyacinth Control District will receive SEALED BIDS for furnishing the MOSQUITO CONTROL ADULTICIDES, LARVICIDES, AQUATIC HERBICIDES, and...
by admin | Aug 8, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are the two mosquitoes that can spread Zika virus by biting a person infected with Zika and later biting another person, introducing the Zika virus through the mosquitoes saliva. To check your property for places the Zika mosquitoes...
by admin | Jul 21, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
Sept. 15, 2016, Final Public Hearing The Lee County Mosquito Control District and the Lee County Hyacinth Control District will hold a Public Hearing Thursday, September 15, 2016 to adopt a final budget for Fiscal year October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017. At...
by admin | Jul 2, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
The Florida Department of Health has put out a new video for children on eliminating mosquito breeding around the house: http://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/spill-the-water
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
June 29, 2016, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a roundtable meeting with Dr. Anne Schuchat and other medical expert and academics that testified at a hearing on federal efforts to combat the Zika virus. Wayne Gale testified as part...
by admin | Jun 5, 2016 | LCMCD News
Used tires can be the perfect breeding place for Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. To get rid of any old tires around your property, you can place two regular car tires (with rims) per week with your regular household garbage. Larger tires need to be taken to...
by admin | May 30, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
Zika Virus Lecture May 9, 2016 Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner talks to high school students in a National Library of Medicine Distance Learning Program about the Zika virus and how information technology can be used in efforts to combat it. This is a 35 minute lecture...
by admin | May 30, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
It’s Up to You: Dengue – Yellow Fever Control (USPHS, 1945) From the U.S. National Library of Medicine Zika and Chikungunya were not a problem in 1944, but the basic concepts still apply to this domestic...
by admin | May 20, 2016 | LCMCD News, Uncategorized
Lee County Mosquito Control District and the Lee County Health Department have worked together in cooperation to protect Lee County from mosquito borne diseases. Each year these programs monitor for local transmission of mosquito borne diseases such as St. Louis...
