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News Briefs
December 11, 2015
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Do you have important news to share about your district or mosquito and vector issues?
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Mailing Address:
1 Capitol Mall
Suite 800
Sacramento, CA 95814
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| MVCAC 2016 Annual Conference |
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February 28th - March 2nd
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1209 L Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Rooms:
- Single/Double Occupancy- $140 per night
- Triple Occupancy- $165
- Quadruple Occupancy- $190
- Room Rate Cut-off: February 5, 2016
Click here for the MVCAC Conference SuperShuttle transportation discount code!
Online registration is now open! Click the "register" button below to register today!
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| MVCAC 2016 Legislative Day |
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April 6th, 2016
More information to come, stay tuned!
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Fall/Winter Legislator Year End Letter Template
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Keeping our legislators informed about our work and its importance in protecting public health in California is vitally important. This winter
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take the time to reach out to legislators from your District to update them on the challenges and good work you performed this past season.
A letter template has been drafted to be sent to legislators from your district that:
- Summarizes points discussed during the 2015 MVCAC Lobby Day.
- Contains highlights from your District over the past year.
- Serves as an invitation to get your legislators and their staff to your District so they can better understand our science based IVM programs and how they work to protect public health.
If you send the letter, get legislators or their staff to your district, or have any questions about the letter please email Jeremy Wittie, MVCAC Legislative Chair, at jwittie@cvmvcd.org.
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84th Annual Conference First Call for Papers & Posters
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The Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California (MVCAC) will hold its 84th Annual Conference on February 28-March 2, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento. You are invited to submit a paper or poster for presentation at the conference.
This presentation should be related to mosquitoes or other vectors, the disease organisms they transmit, or their surveillance and control. Presentations may be of research results, the development and testing of new methods, equipment or products, education, community outreach and the adaptation or development of new technology relating to vector research, surveillance or control.
If you are interested in presenting a paper or poster, please
click here for more information.
Symposia's being offered at the 84th Annual Conference are the following (Moderator names are included if you'd like to reach out to a symposia moderator directly):
Monday, February 29th:
Tuesday Mar 1
8:00-10:00am
Concurrent Session 1 - Community Engagement and Advocacy, Jason Farned:
Concurrent Session 2 - Operations, David Heft:
dheft@fire2wire.com
10:15am-12:15pm
Concurrent Session 3 - Information Technology and Techniques, Peter Bonkrude:
Concurrent Session 4 - Pesticides- Applications and Resistance, Steve Su:
1:15-3:30pm
Concurrent Session 5 - Lab Innovations and Technology, Kara Kelley:
kkelley@fightthebite.net
Concurrent Session 6 - Vector Borne Disease and Emerging Vectors, Wakoli Wekesa:
3:45-5:30pm
Concurrent Session 7 - Agency Updates, Renjie Hu:
Renjie.Hu@cdph.ca.gov
Concurrent Session 8 - Vector Borne Disease and Emerging Vectors, Paula Macedo:
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MVCAC Corporate Member Fiscal Status Reports Reminder
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We are still missing some fiscal status reports from MVCAC member districts. If you have not yet submitted your fiscal status report, please do so ASAP.
Instructions on how to login to your district's portal account are below. Once this updated fiscal information is received, we will send you your 2015-16 dues invoice.
- Login using your district login information. This is the main login that was provided to managers a couple of months ago, if you need it resent please email us at mvcac@mvcac.org
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- Once logged in, please click the link titled: "Create Corporate Members Fiscal Status Report 2015-2016"
- Enter the information requested: Total Actual Expenditures, Capital/Fixed Asset Expenditures, Operational Expenditures, and your name.
- You will then see a confirmation page, please review the information you entered and then click "Save Changes"
- After clicking "Save Changes" you should receive a confirmation email. A dues invoice will be mailed to you by the MVCAC staff shortly after you submit your information.
Please feel free to contact the office if you have any questions or if you need any assistance logging in to or navigating the portal. Thank you for supporting MVCAC!
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Your Brain's Take on Public Health Campaigns
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Mass media campaigns have proven to influence people's health-related decision making-for better or for worse. Effective messaging has helped millions quit smoking, exercise more, and eat better, while failed campaigns have backfired, sometimes even causing those with unhealthy habits to dig deeper into their vices.
"We don't always know what's going to persuade us," says Emily Falk, an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication. "In the moment, it might feel like one set of advertisements is appealing, but that doesn't always translate into downstream behavior."
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First Dengue Fever Vaccine Approved by Mexico
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A dengue fever vaccine developed by the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has been approved for use by Mexico, the first approval in the world for any vaccine for the disease, which afflicts tens of millions of people around the world and is becoming an increasing threat.
Sanofi said in a news release Wednesday that the vaccine, which it is calling Dengvaxia, was approved by Mexico's Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk for prevention of dengue in people 9 to 45 years old living in endemic areas.
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A day in the life of a vector control officer: It's not all just mosquitoes
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Mosquitoes, rats, fire ants - they're all co-workers of sorts for Danny Bui.
As an inspector with Orange County Vector Control, Bui has a job of eradicating creatures that can carry diseases that harm humans.
Bui covers Lake Forest and parts of Mission Viejo, often making house calls to help people vanquish vermin.
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Big Screen Entertainment Group Sets Release Date for Mosquito-Man, Premiere at Hollywood International Film Festival
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA
--(Marketwired - December 09, 2015) - Big Screen Entertainment Group (
OTC PINK
: BSEG) is excited to announce that the film, MOSQUITO-MAN, an action-adventure movie produced by Big Screen Entertainment, will be released domestically on January 12th, 2016 on DVD and VOD.
About MOSQUITO-MAN: "Jim Crawley (Michael Manasseri -- WEIRD SCIENCE, LICENSE TO DRIVE, DIRTY LOVE, BABYSITTER WANTED) is having a really bad day. He gets fired from his job at the nuclear power plant, his car is towed, he discovers his wife is having an affair, then a kind man who saves his life turns out to be an evil scientist. Jim is abducted and infected with a deadly mosquito-borne virus. Unfortunately for the scientist and anyone else whoever wronged Jim, vengeance comes in the form of the half man-half mosquito that is MOSQUITO-MAN.
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CAHAN Health Notification - Protect Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
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California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith is urging Californians to protect themselves against mosquito bites if traveling to Mexico or Latin America, where there have been increased reports of the mosquito-borne diseases chikungunya and dengue. Travelers should also be aware that there is currently transmission of dengue on the Big Island in Hawaii, and precautions against mosquito bites are advised; there are no reports of dengue transmission on the other Hawaiian islands.
Please see the following link for detailed News Release:
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