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Round of Mosquito Spraying Slated for Indio Neighborhood

Posted by Contributing Editor on June 20, 2018 in Uncategorized | Leave a response
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A round of preventative mosquito spraying will be conducted in Indio neighborhoods next week to counter the recent detection of a species capable of transmitting deadly viruses, local vector control officials announced Wednesday.

Spraying will occur between 1 and 7 a.m. June 27, weather permitting, to combat the presence of the aedes agypti mosquito, which officials at the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District say was first detected in Indio in October 2016.

Spraying will be conducted in an area bordered by Monroe Street, Crest Avenue, Avenue 44 and Jackson Street.

“The goal is two-fold,” CVMVCD spokeswoan Jill Oviatt said. “We want to knock down the number of invasive mosquitoes that are capable of transmitting serious viruses, including chikungunya, dengue and Zika, as well as reduce the population of local mosquitoes, which can infect people with viruses we see annually in the valley, such as West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis.”

The truck-mounted control efforts will target “immature mosquitoes in the water using a naturally occurring bacterium to kill mosquito larvae before they emerge into biting adults.”

Helicopter-based spraying was conducted in the same area early last year, reducing the mosquito population temporarily, but “they have gone back up,” according to the district.

Elsewhere in the Coachella Valley, mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile virus were detected recently in Indian Wells, prompting increased trapping and surveillance there.

Round of Mosquito Spraying Slated for Indio Neighborhood was last modified: June 20th, 2018 by Contributing Editor

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