Submitted by Ruzanna Harutyunyan on Jun 30th, 2008
Weather conditions permitting, DCHHS will spray an area of the Town of Highland Park (Mapsco 35M) South of Mockingbird, West of Airline, North of Euclid, and East of Drexel.
Residents are encouraged to stay indoors and avoid contact with the spray. In order to spray winds must be below 10 mph and the temperature should be between 70 and 80 degrees.
Now that West Nile Season has officially arrived in Dallas County, it is important for everyone to protect themselves and their families from West Nile virus by remembering the three Ds dress in long clothing, drain any standing water and using insect repellent that contains DEET, picaradin or lemon oil of eucalyptus. The public can receive information on infected mosquito pools in Dallas County by sending an email to westnile@dallascounty.org to be added to the West Nile Watch distribution list.
This publication is distributed by email weekly during mosquito season and contains a list of lcoations within Dallas County where mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile Virus. DCHHS continues to work with its municipal partners to protect Dallas County residents from mosquitoborne illnesses.
DCHHS West Nile prevention activities include surveillance, source reduction, larvaciding (killing mosquito larvae or wigglers), adulticiding (spraying for adult mosquitoes), and public education. Dallas County has enhanced is early detection capability through the use of gravid traps for mosquito collection and global positioning systems equipment provided by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
