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Vector control officials warn of dengue risk, test sterile-male mosquito program in San Fernando area
Summary
The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District updated the council on mosquito-borne disease risk, recent locally transmitted dengue cases and a pilot "sterile insect technique" release that showed population reductions.
The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District told the San Fernando City Council the county is seeing increased dengue risk from invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and described a pilot program releasing sterilized male mosquitoes that the district says reduced local mosquito populations.
"We had 140 travel associated cases just in our jurisdiction," General Manager Suzanne Clue told the council, and she reported three locally transmitted dengue cases in the district last year. Clue described an integrated approach of surveillance, resident…
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