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 | 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...
