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News Briefs
December 4, 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
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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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General Plan Guidelines Updated
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Office of Planning & Research Community Outreach Forum Dates For Review and Comments
The Update to the General Plan Guidelines Public Draft is now available for review and comments. The good news is that there are specific references to mosquito and vector control issues in the Public Draft. These are references that are supportive of MVCAC's general messages and are contained in Chapter 5 - "Healthy Communities" on page 223 of the Public Draft. We think this is a good initial start on OPR's part to acknowledged the concerns about mosquitoes and emerging vectors. MVCAC and the various local districts have the opportunity to offer more comments during the public comment period which ends at 5 pm December 18th. Comments should be sent to info@opr.ca.gov.
Also, OPR is hosting several Community Outreach Forums throughout the state until December 4th where the public can learn about the guidelines update and share additional information for OPR to consider. We would encourage all local districts to consider attending one of the Community Forums in or near your area. The date for the forums are listed below. Simply click on the link to register. If a forum in your area has already passed, you still have an opportunity to make written comments. More information about OPR's process can be found
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Oakland, Dec 7 9:30-2pm
Santa Barbara, Dec 9 1:30-4:30pm
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District Managers and Regional Reps - We Need Your Input On Issue Experts
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The MVCAC PR Committee is in the beginning stage of developing an MVCAC Statewide Speakers Bureau. The purpose of this tool is to have an inventory of experts on a variety of issue areas that can speak proactively and reactively on issues that impact MVCAC and its members. These individuals need to be well educated on priority issues and have the discipline to speak intelligently and responsibly on behalf of MVCAC.
We would like your input on third party experts that your district typically uses, individuals who are not affiliated with our MVCAC, which provides an additional level of credibility when responding to inquiries. Additionally, we would like to ask for recommendations on who you use as in-house experts on the subject matters below.
Subject Matters Include:
- Bed bugs
- Climate change
- Emerging diseases
- Endangered species
- Feral bees
- Invasive species
- IVM
- Pesticide use and non-target impacts
- Pesticide use and chronic disease impacts
- Surveillance programs
- Tick-borne diseases
- West Nile virus and survivors
- Wild bird species
If you have recommendations on individuals MVCAC can potentially add to the Statewide Speakers Bureau, please send their names, background information and a brief description of how they've been useful for your district in the past to: Jenny Dudikoff @ jdudikoff@ka-pow.com
Thank you and we are eager for your feedback.
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Dengue outbreak: All deaths from mosquito-borne disease have been reported in Southern Taiwan
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The dengue fever case tally has been confirmed at 122 by the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH). The numbers of cases have gone up by five since yesterday. The mosquito-borne disease has taken lives in southern Taiwan with 112 in Tainan, followed by Kaohsiung with 70 deaths and two in Pingtung County.
Dengue is not endemic in Hawaii but at times is brought in along with infected travelers, which according to state health officials is the way through which the outbreak has started.
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Chikungunya, A Mosquito-Borne Virus, Might Be Scarier Than We Thought
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A mosquito-borne virus that has made its way to the U.S. may be causing more serious symptoms than first thought.
Chikungunya starts with fevers and aches, like malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. What distinguishes the virus is that it also brings debilitating joint pain. The pain usually dwindles over the course of a few weeks, though it can leave some people with chronic arthritis.
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CDC joins investigation as dengue fever cases in Hawaii tops 100
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Health officials in Hawaii are getting help from the CDC to control the ongoing outbreak of dengue fever on the Big Island.
Dr. Lyle Petersen -- director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of vector borne infectious diseases -- and two colleagues traveled to Hawaii and met with state health officials Tuesday. They plan to travel to the Big Island on Wednesday. Along with their expertise, they brought tools including special mosquito traps that are easier to use and not widely available but work well with the specific type of mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever.
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