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Zika and Mosquito Borne Illnesses

Florida Department of Health (DOH) Kari Lara-Murabito, ES III Sanitary Nuisance Coordinator June 2017

Outline

• Mosquito borne diseases
• What is Zika?
• Why is Zika a public health risk?
• Aedes aegypti vs. Aedes albopictus
• What is DOH – Orange doing?
• Breeding locations and mosquito fish?
• How can you help?

Mosquito-Borne Diseases

• Chikungunya virus
• West Nile virus
• Dengue
• Malaria
• Yellow Fever
• Encephalitis
• Zika
• Rift Valley Fever

Anopheles sp.

Chikungunya

Chikungunya

Dengue and West Nile Virus

Malaria

https://www.cdc.gov

Yellow Fever

Other mosquito borne illnesses

• Eastern Equine Encephalitis
• St. Louis Encephalitis
• La Crosse Encephalitis
• Rift Valley Fever

What is Zika?

• Originally identified in Africa and Southeast

Asia

– First identified in Uganda’s Zika Forest in 1947

• Virus spreads to people through the bite of an

infected Aedes species mosquito

• Passed from pregnant woman to her unborn

child

– Microcephaly

• No vaccine or medicine for Zika

MICROCEPHALY

Zika in the US

Zika

• Fever
• Rash
• Joint pain
• Red eyes
• Incubation period: 2-14

days

• 1 in 5 people become

symptomatic

• No vaccine
• Pregnant and nursing

women can use EPA- approved mosquito repellent

• Ae. aegypti vs. Ae. albopictus

• Ae. aegypti vs. Ae. albopictus

DOH - Orange

• Collaboration with Mosquito Control

– 7 part-time Zika employees

Sanitary Nuisance

• 386.01 Sanitary nuisance.—A sanitary

nuisance is the commission of any act, by an individual, municipality, organization, or corporation, or the keeping, maintaining, propagation, existence, or permission of anything, by an individual, municipality,

• rganization, or corporation, by which the

health or life of an individual, or the health or lives of individuals, may be threatened or impaired, or by which or through which, directly or indirectly, disease may be caused.

Florida Statute 386

FS 386.03(2)

• The Department of Health

may remove or prevent the continuing sanitary nuisance condition FS 386.041(1)(e)

• The creation, maintenance,
• r causing of any condition

capable of breeding flies, mosquitoes, or other arthropods capable of transmitting diseases, directly or indirectly to humans

SN Process

• Complaint received (usually green pool)
• Notice to Abate
• Notice of Intended Action
• If the SN is still not corrected, we abate the

condition