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Mosquito Control and GIS – The Hamilton County Experience Dan Walker, MPH March 8, 2006.

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1 Mosquito Control and GIS – The Hamilton County Experience Dan Walker, MPH March 8, 2006

2 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

3 Mosquito Life Cycle Larviciding Adulticiding

4 Locating Breeding Sites  Resident complaints  Aerial photography  Field work

5 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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12 Source: CDC 2006

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15 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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20 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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27 Acknowledgements  Joe Seig – Hamilton County ISS  Larry Stout – Hamilton County ISS  Barry McNulty – H.C. Health Department

28 Questions?


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