MVCAC News Briefs - November 13, 2015

Do you have important news to share about your district or mosquito and vector issues?

If you would like your news to be included in the MVCAC News Briefs, please send press releases and/or links to relevant news articles to mvcac@mvcac.org

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Mailing Address:

1 Capitol Mall

Suite 800

Sacramento, CA 95814

MVCAC December Planning Meeting

December 3-4, 2015

Hyatt Regency

1209 L Street

Sacramento, CA 95814

Hotel Room rate is $160 plus taxes per night, click here to book a room.

Hotel rooms are booking fast, book your hotel room today!

Click here to view the meeting agenda.

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MVCAC Fall Board Meeting Minutes and Reports

Please click here to view the minutes and post meeting report attachments from the MVCAC Fall Meeting.

MVCAC Corporate Member Fiscal Status Reports Reminder

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!

General Plan Guidelines Updated

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 here.

Stockton, California Monday, Nov 16, 9:30-1:30pm

Los Angeles, California Monday, Nov 30, 9-2pm

San Bernardino, California Tuesday, Dec 1, 9-2pm

San Diego, Dec 2, 9:30-2pm

San Francisco, Dec 4, 9-2pm

Oakland, Dec 7 9:30-2pm

Santa Barbara, Dec 9 1:30-4:30pm

MVCAC 2016 Annual Conference

February 28th - March 2nd , 2016

Hyatt Regency Sacramento

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

Booking Website:
https://resweb.passkey.com/go/2016MV16

For more information and a preliminary schedule, please click here

84th Annual Conference First Call for Papers & Posters

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:

1:15-3:30pm Symposium 1 - Terrestrial Invertebrates, Bob Gay: rgay@smcmad.org

3:45-5:30pm Symposium 2 - Terrestrial Vertebrates, Bob Gay: rgay@smcmad.org

Tuesday Mar 1
8:00-10:00am
Concurrent Session 1 - Community Engagement and Advocacy, Jason Farned:

jfarned@sgvmosquito.org

Concurrent Session 2 - Operations, David Heft: dheft@fire2wire.com

10:15am-12:15pm
Concurrent Session 3 - Information Technology and Techniques, Peter Bonkrude:

pbonkrude@shastamosquito.org

Concurrent Session 4 - Pesticides- Applications and Resistance, Steve Su:

tsu@wvmvcd.org

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:

wwekesa@sgvmosquito.org

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:

pmacedo@fightthebite.net

District Managers and Regional Reps - We Need Your Input On Issue Experts

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.

2016 William C. Reeves New Investigator Award Application Open

Applications for the statewide William C. Reeves New Investigator Award will be accepted through Tuesday, December 1, 2015.

The William C. Reeves New Investigator Award, memorializing Dr. William C. Reeves, who was a renowned University of California entomologist, is sponsored by the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California (MVCAC). The award is presented to the best scientific paper submitted and presented at the annual MVCAC conference.

Please click here for more information.

WEST NILE: State, county break records for deaths

A record number of people have suffered West Nile virus-related deaths this year in California and Riverside County, while the county also reached an all-time high number of infections.

The state's 32 deaths eclipse the previous record of 31, set last year. Riverside County's six virus-related deaths surpass its record of five in 2005, Riverside County Department of Public Health spokesman Jose Arballo Jr. said Thursday, Nov. 12.

El Nino-Driven Rains Spur Second Mosquito Season in Southern US

While October typically marks the time of year when mosquito season dies down, heavy rounds of rain across the Southern United States have led to a second mosquito season.

Water and temperature play a major role on the amount of mosquitoes, Orkin's Entomologist and Technical Services Director Ron Harrison, Ph.D, said.

"If it's really dry but the temperature is warm and an area sees a big rainstorm, a second bloom or season can occur," Harrison said.

Healthy humans can give dengue virus to mosquitos

As far as historic nicknames go, Typhoid Mary and Typhoid Joe are probably not the most flattering. But now it seems that there may be a whole bunch of Dengue Mary and Joes to keep them company. A study with kids in Cambodia is the first to examine the transmission of dengue virus from asymptomatic but infected humans into mosquitoes.

It found that asymptomatic and presymptomatic people were even more likely to pass the virus on to mosquitoes than people who were actually sick with dengue. These results may have ramifications for the trajectory of dengue outbreaks and epidemics of similar viruses, like yellow fever.

Rat poisons claim another unintended victim: the mountain lion known as P-34

Encounters between rats and mountain lions generally have predictable outcomes. The prey dies so that the predator can live.

But as civilization continues to push into landscapes once populated mainly by non-human species, the balance has shifted. People use highly toxic poisons to kill rats, then the low-on-the-food chain rodents take the apex-predator big cats down with them.

Looking for mosquito repellent on Hawaii Island? Good luck

Mosquito repellent is a hot commodity on the Big Island right now.

As residents struggle to deal with a dengue fever outbreak, supplies of mosquito repellent on Hawaii Island are quickly disappearing.

Dengue fever is spread by mosquito bites. Health officials say there have been 33 confirmed cases of dengue fever on Hawaii Island since September. The outbreak has spurred the state Department of Health to spray for mosquitoes in communities across the Big Island.