It’s time to get out and celebrate our nation and each other as fellow Americans. Celebrating safely this year is more than about wearing life-jackets on the river and using fireworks that don’t explode.
Because so many people will be outdoors, particularly at the Pocket Parade, the Sacramento-Yolo Vector Control wants to make sure you and your family are wearing mosquito repellent along with your sunscreen because they have this week found dead birds and mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus. Below is a map of the locations where West Nile infections have cropped up. Click on the map to go directly to the Vector Control ‘Fight the Bite’ website for updated infection information. In a news release Thursday, District Manager David Brown warned “Many will be enjoying the weather and taking part in family BBQ’s and watching fireworks around dusk, a time when mosquitoes are most active. We urge you to wear an effective repellent to prevent mosquito bites. All it takes is one bite from an infected mosquito to get the disease.”
According to the United States Center for Disease Control the most effective insect repellents use DEET, Picaridin, IR3535 or the plant based Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus. (Click here for all the information.) Be safe this weekend and all summer long from mosquitoes and the West Nile Virus.
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