West Nile Virus:Without Surveillance There Will Be No Control

Lisa SmithISAT Senior Symposium 2002

Mayor of NYC and Commissioner of

Health

Officiates plan Oversees DOHSets priorities

Director of Vector Control – Department

of Health Director of West Nile Virus Entomological

Surveillance Inspection Teams(Students from HRTP)

Create Task ForceGoals for mosquito

control Implement planOversee inspectors

Determine risk areas Survey green areasStanding water complaintsCatch Basin control checks

Lab organization

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/flaviviruses_2.htm

From the Center for Disease Control

Source: www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/disease, www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/mosquito/mosquito

Source: http://res2.agr.ca/ecorc/program2/entomology/biting_flies/english/mosquito.html

Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/fkl/ada/about/1_2.html

Source: “Fight the Bite” pamphlet by New York State and the Department of Health

Source: www.seas.ucla.edu/stenstro/catch.html

Source: http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/biobulletin/biobulletin/story1381.html

Source: http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/biobulletin/biobulletin/story1381.html

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