Fairfax Board OKs Mosquito, Tick Program
Initiative will target West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease in 2013.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday an insect control program designed to fight West Nile Virus and Lyme disease. The 2013 Disease Carrying Insect Program is a series of measures designed to prevent widespread outbreaks of West Nile Virus, Lyme disease and other illnesses in the county. The annual initiative involves monitoring mosquitoes and ticks, surveillance on any human cases in the county, and educating residents on effective prevention. West Nile Virus season runs from May to October, according to officials. During the the 2012 mosquito monitoring period, county health experts trapped and tested more than 64,000 mosquitos in nearly 2,800 groups. Of those groups, 255 tested positive for West Nile Virus. Positive …
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John Strother
10:23 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Lyme disease is spread by infected ticks. Best way to get rid of ticks is to burn the fields that support them. Turn loose chickens and these will eat ticks. However, one can not turn loose live stock, nor can one burn fields. However, without doing so the ticks breed and win. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in water, it could be as little as a teaspoon of water. Around all the industrial sites are … more ›