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Madera County mosquito control details faster testing, sterile-mosquito release and area-wide larvicide plans
Summary
The Madera County Mosquito Vector Control District told supervisors it has increased surveillance, added in-house viral testing to cut lab turnaround, and plans to deploy area-wide "walls" larvicide spraying and sterile-mosquito release (Wolbachia/IIT) to reduce Aedes aegypti and other nuisance species.
Abraham Velasquez, biologist for the Madera County Mosquito Vector Control District, told the board the district has expanded trap coverage across the county and will begin in-house testing for mosquito-borne viruses to shorten the weeklong turnaround previously required when samples went to outside labs.
"When we send our samples out, it would take around 7 days to get a response back from CDPH...that 7 day or 1 week time frame lags our response time," Velasquez said, and added the district now plans to perform PCR testing in-house for West Nile virus and other arboviruses to speed responses.
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