| Arbovirus Surveillance | |
| Sentinel Chicken Program | |
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purpose of the Sentinel Chicken Surveillance Program is to monitor the
level of transmission of disease to the sentinel animals. In our program
we use chickens because they are the safest sentinel to residents and workers.
The chicken flocks are placed throughout the county and bled weekly from
early spring until the end of fall. The arboviruses are present year round
but only transmitted at certain times of the year.The blood is tested for
virus at the state laboratory in |
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| Mosquito Pooling | |
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The Mosquito Pool Testing Program tests the local
mosquitoes for virus. Mosquitoes are trapped by dry ice baited traps at
different sites around the county, identified to species and placed 50
mosquitoes per tube. This is a time consuming process because the
specimens must be kept cold while being identified so that the virus can
be preserved. The tubes are then sent to |
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