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Source: http://www.ramonasentinel.com/2014/10/29/new-invasive-mosquito-found-in-county/
New invasive mosquito found in county
County environmental health officials are asking the public for help after the discovery of a new invasive mosquito in San Diego County that feeds in daylight hours and can transmit several diseases, including yellow fever, and dengue fever.
?We?re urging people to look for, and to eliminate or report any standing water that could be breeding grounds for mosquitoes, outside their homes, but also inside their homes because these small mosquitoes like to breed inside too,? said Elizabeth Pozzebon, director of the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.
County officials said military entomologists at Naval Base San Diego discovered four Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, otherwise known as ?yellow fever mosquitoes,? in the last couple of weeks in offices at the base on San Diego Bay. Navy and county vector control teams are working together to put up traps on and around the base to determine if there are more of these mosquitoes...
New invasive mosquito found in county
County environmental health officials are asking the public for help after the discovery of a new invasive mosquito in San Diego County that feeds in daylight hours and can transmit several diseases, including yellow fever, and dengue fever.
?We?re urging people to look for, and to eliminate or report any standing water that could be breeding grounds for mosquitoes, outside their homes, but also inside their homes because these small mosquitoes like to breed inside too,? said Elizabeth Pozzebon, director of the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health.
County officials said military entomologists at Naval Base San Diego discovered four Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, otherwise known as ?yellow fever mosquitoes,? in the last couple of weeks in offices at the base on San Diego Bay. Navy and county vector control teams are working together to put up traps on and around the base to determine if there are more of these mosquitoes...