1. Boots on the Ground: Aedes Control in Los Angeles County
Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District
Mark Daniel

3. Our Services: Integrated Vector Management (IVM)
Mosquito Management
Inspections & service requests
Source reduction / elimination
Treatments
Surveillance
Mosquito populations
Disease transmission
Outreach & Education
Community events
Elementary education
Media alerts

4. Three Invasive Aedes Mosquitoes at a Glance
Asian tiger mosquito
Australian backyard mosquito
Yellow fever mosquito

6. Confirmed Aedes positive sites
within SGVMVCD
January 2016

7. California Department of Public Health Interactive Map

8. Confirmed Aedes positive sites
within GLACVCD
January 2016

9. Public Health Concerns
Competent vector
Vicious day-biting mosquito that prefers mammals
Significant impact on SoCal lifestyle
Increased risk of new mosquito-borne viruses and severe public health challenge
Florida room

11. Schools

12. Love the Indoors, as well!

13. Rows of eggs laid along old waterlines
Aedes Eggs
Rows of eggs laid along old waterlines
Very tiny!
Laid on the containers that hold water or plant stems
Dry eggs remain viable for years
The biggest challenge for Aedes control

14. Control is straight forward
It takes a village!

15. Control Efforts

16. Invasive Aedes – Here To Stay
– Eradication!
Door-to-Door Inspections
Source reduction / Sanitation
Treatments
Education
– Infestation management
Ongoing neighborhood control & education
Began discussing sterile male mosquito release
2015 – Shift to long-term strategy
Resident responsibility
Novel control strategies: Sterile male releases
2016 – Implement CDC guidelines for imported cases
Aedes suppression and education 150 meters from an imported case

17. Locally Acquired Case…..!?

18. Questions?