Note: Please disregard the message below if you have already submitted your fiscal status report, or if you have been in touch with MVCAC staff regarding your fiscal status report.

New this year, we are collecting all fiscal status information online through the MVCAC member portal.  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.

1. 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.
2. Once logged in, please click the link titled: "Create Corporate Members Fiscal Status Report 2015-2016"
3. Enter the information requested: Total Actual Expenditures, Capital/Fixed Asset Expenditures, Operational Expenditures, and your name.
4. You will then see a confirmation page, please review the information you entered and then click "Save Changes"
5. 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.

We know many districts have not closed their books yet, so please submit your fiscal status reports when you are able.  We're hoping to have all dues payments received by September 1, 2015.
 

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!

Hello, Everyone, 

With the season in full throttle, we are once again sharing our professional photos with you. Our goal is to promote mosquito and vector control everywhere. Please feel free to use the photos at your discretion. They are also available to media to use as well so feel free to share with them. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126180823@N06/sets

There is no password; you need only this link to access the photos. Once there just click on a category and then the picture. Then right-click to save the photo to your computer. That's it!

We have photos regarding these categories and more: mosquitoes, ticks, yellowjackets, neglected swimming pools, rodents, mosquitofish, laboratory, dead birds, traps, mosquito control in cemeteries and agricultural areas, catch basin treatments, sentinel chickens and blood sampling, and skunks. 

There are lots of reasons to use images, especially quality ones, in your communication. Here are four:

1. Articles with images get 94% more total views.
2. Including a Photo and a video in a press release increases views by over 45%.
3. 60% of consumers are more likely to consider or contact a business when an image shows up in local search results.
4. The engagement rate on Facebook for photos has a 37% higher level of engagement for photos over text.

Enthusiastically,

Deborah Bass

Public Affairs Manager

A clinical trial of a new investigational vaccine designed to protect against West Nile Virus infection will be sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The experimental vaccine was discovered and developed by scientists at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland. The scientists were funded with a $7.2 million grant from NIAID, awarded in 2009. The new vaccine is being tested in a Phase 1 clinical trial at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, one of NIAID's Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs). 

Lab technician Paula Matney holds a red leg chicken, which will be tested for West Nile virus at the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District in Elk Grove on Wednesday. - Randy Pench rpench@sacbee.com

With the deadly West Nile virus season heating up, state and local health officials are again battling the disease with an unusual arsenal of tiny fish, dead birds and plump chickens.

That trio, part of a years-long, multipronged approach to squashing West Nile, helps health officials identify the mosquito "hot spots" that need ground or aerial spraying.

This week, those efforts intensified, as local mosquito abatement officials increased their spraying after seeing a pronounced increase in West Nile activity, partly due to the triple-digit heat, which accelerates the proliferation of disease-carrying mosquitoes and dead birds.

(Photo: Provided/CDC)

Two  Tulare County  people have been sickened from West Nile virus  and a third is likely suffering the disease as well, according to the county Health and Human Services Agency.

One of the patients is 91-year-old Richard Matthews from Tulare who contracted West Nile from the bite of a mosquito called Culex quinquefasciatus, or the common house mosquito, which is breeding rapidly in Tulare County. HHS did not identify the victims. Matthews was identified by his son and daughter who said they wanted to get the word out to residents so they can take action to protect themselves.

David Schmidt of the Lancaster County West Nile Program sprays mosquitoes in the Myerstown Area. Jeremy Long-Lebanon Daily News

As National Night Out and the Yolo County Fair draw nearer, the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District is warning people to take precautions against being bitten by mosquitoes that could carry the West Nile virus.

National Night Out in Woodland is scheduled for next Tuesday evening at Jack Slaven Park as well as at Target and several private residences. The Yolo County Fair is scheduled for four days, beginning on Aug. 19.

West Nile virus dead bird testing and the WNV Dead Bird Hotline began on April 15, 2015. 

Live calls are being answered (1-877-WNV-BIRD) and online reports are being responded to (www.westnile.ca.gov). 

Agencies can bypass the message options by calling the agency line at (510-412-4601). This will connect you to the hotline operators. If you need to enter a dead bird report and obtain a dead bird number, please use the Gateway.