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Aerial spraying for mosquitoes scheduled for southeastern Massachusetts - WCVB Boston
Aug 08, 2020 52 secs

Aerial spraying for mosquitoes will take place in southeastern Massachusetts in the coming days, as a dozen communities in the region have seen an increased presence of the Eastern equine encephalitis virus.

So far this year, 12 communities in southeastern Massachusetts have been found by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to be at moderate to critical risk for the EEE virus.

“As several communities in southeastern Massachusetts are at elevated risk for EEE and this season’s first human case has been confirmed, the Commonwealth is acting to protect the public by conducting aerial spray operations to reduce the population of mosquitoes that transmit the EEE virus,” said John Lebeaux, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and chair of the State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board.

All residents are reminded to use mosquito repellent any time they are outside, and those in high and critical risk communities are advised to schedule their outdoor activity to avoid the dusk to dawn hours to reduce exposure to the mosquitoes most likely to spread EEE

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