The DuPage Mosquito Abatement Task Force is exploring ways to better communicate its message to the citizens of DuPage County, as well as better cooperate between its 45 member government entities, after the County saw 56 cases of West Nile Disease and five deaths in 2012, the Naperville Sun reports.
According to the paper, the task force wants to improve its anti-mosquito public health campaign, “Flight the Bite,” by better coordinating its entities’ surveillance and education efforts to crack down on the Culex mosquitoes that carry West Nile, malaria and encephalitis; they are also exploring options for consolidating some of those 45 currently separate mosquito-abatement programs.
“Citizens need to be aware of the threat,” the paper quoted Linda Kurzawa,president of the DuPage County Board of Health, saying. ““We’re looking for a more unified way [to implement practices] so we can get a better result.”
DuPage entities spend $2 million a year on mosquito abatement, the paper said.
Read the full story at the Naperville Sun website.
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