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Alameda County Mosquito Abatement reports first Aedes aegypti detections in Livermore; urges resident vigilance
Summary
The Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District told the Livermore City Council it recently detected Aedes aegypti in the city and described monitoring and control steps including traps, a novel water test, backyard inspections and targeted bacterial larvicides.
Ryan Klotnitzer, general manager of the Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District, told the Livermore City Council on Oct. 27 that the district has recorded its first detections of Aedes aegypti in Livermore and is expanding surveillance and control work.
Klotnitzer said the detections — which began “about 2, 3 weeks ago” in areas near the airport and a sanitation treatment plant — include adults found in traps and evidence from a water-testing technique the district developed that detects the species’ presence without needing to find the adult insect. “We had our first detection of this aedes aegypti in Livermore ever,” Klotnitzer said to the council.
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