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Agency readies mosquito and tick surveillance, warns of possible targeted treatments for Eastern equine encephalitis
Summary
State entomology and pesticide staff told the Senate Agriculture Committee they expanded tick and mosquito surveillance and are preparing for possible targeted mosquito treatments if Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) indicators exceed public-health thresholds.
Steve (last name not specified), director of the division overseeing public health and agricultural resource management, briefed the committee on the agency’s pesticide and vector programs, including rodenticide sales, tick surveillance and mosquito monitoring.
“We have a 100 plus sites that we put traps out, check them on a regular basis, collect mosquitoes, identify them to species,” he said, describing the agency’s mosquito surveillance network and its partnerships with the Department of Health and the CDC for laboratory testing.
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