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Mosquito Control and GIS – The Hamilton County Experience Dan Walker, MPH March 8, 2006
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Mosquito Control Reason: Program initiated in response to West Nile Virus Purpose: To develop a program to prevent arbovirus disease transmission to the human population
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Mosquito Life Cycle Larviciding Adulticiding
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Locating Breeding Sites Resident complaints Aerial photography Field work
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No Stick Pins GeoExplorer 3, GeoXT: collect data GPS Pathfinder: process data ArcView: analyze/manage data POSSE: manage office/field workflow
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Source: CDC 2006
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Data Collection Data related to the breeding site is entered into a workflow management software Join is created in ArcMap to view details that were entered in software Relate is created to view records from the breeding site
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Adulticiding Determine when to adulticide from monitoring and surveillance Mosquitoes that test positive for WNV or SLE Dead bird surveillance Large trap collections of nuisance mosquitoes
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Acknowledgements Joe Seig – Hamilton County ISS Larry Stout – Hamilton County ISS Barry McNulty – H.C. Health Department
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