Is the Health Unit going to use larvicide to reduce the mosquito population?
The Health Unit is promoting personal protection and yard cleaning as the most effective ways to reduce the risk of West Nile Virus infection. The Health Unit will set mosquito traps in designated areas around Windsor-Essex County. The mosquitoes in these traps will be sent to Brock University in St. Catharines once a week for testing. Test results will also be sent to the Health Unit every week. A vector larviciding program has begun to reduce mosquito populations, under the authority of the Medical Officer of Health, under Ontario Regulation 199/03 and by permit approval of the Ministry of the Environment, in the following communities: Windsor, Essex, Tecumseh, Lakeshore, Leamington, LaSalle, Amherstburg and Kingsville. Larviciding will take place to reduce populations of mosquito larvae, and to reduce the risk of the West Nile Virus to persons in Windsor-Essex County.
The Health Unit is promoting personal protection and yard cleaning as the most effective ways to reduce the risk of West Nile Virus infection. The Health Unit will set mosquito traps in designated areas around Windsor-Essex County. The mosquitoes in these traps will be sent to Brock University in St. Catharines once a week for testing. Test results will also be sent to the Health Unit every week. A vector larviciding program has begun to reduce mosquito populations, under the authority of the Medical Officer of Health, under Ontario Regulation 199/03 and by permit approval of the Ministry of the Environment, in the following communities: Windsor, Essex, Tecumseh, Lakeshore, Leamington, LaSalle, Amherstburg and Kingsville. Larviciding will take place to reduce populations of mosquito larvae, and to reduce the risk of the West Nile Virus to persons in Windsor-Essex County. The larvicide Aquabac 200G (Bti), PCP# 26863 will be applied to standing water that cannot be drained, and Altosid P
