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Vector Control Program Information
Zoonotic Diseases - Animal & Insect Vectors
The Vector Control Program
is involved with the prevention and control of vector (insect and
animal) borne diseases through education and enforcement. Diseases
which are spread from insects and animals to man, known as zoonotic
diseases, are of primary concern. Zoonotic
diseases include but are not limited to: Cat
Scratch Fever, Colorado
Tick Fever, Giardia,
Hanta Virus,
Lyme Disease,
Plague, Q
Fever, Rabies,
Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever, Salmonella,
Tick
Relapsing Fever, Tularemia,
Typhus,
Western
Equine Encephalitis, and West
Nile Virus.
The Kern County Environmental
Health Services Department Solid Waste and Vector Control Programs
work co-operatively with the California Department of Health Services
Vector-borne Disease Branch, local government agencies and mosquito
abatement/vector control districts to safeguard the general public
and combat the spread of vector borne diseases within Kern County.
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