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Greater LA County Vector Control warns of dengue risks, outlines control tools including sterile‑male pilot
Summary
The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District told the Public Safety Committee it is tracking locally transmitted dengue and expanding tools — including a sterile insect pilot — while funding relies on a property assessment currently capped at $20 under Proposition 218.
The Public Safety Committee received a briefing June 18 from the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District about mosquito control operations, rising risk from Aedes aegypti and plans for new control methods.
Suzanne Klute, general manager of the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District, told the committee the district is funded by a property‑tax assessment that currently charges a single‑family home about $18.97 per year and that the district is one of five special independent vector districts serving the county. Klute said the district recorded about 140 imported dengue cases last…
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