Loveland Mosquito Control

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Historically, mosquito-borne disease presented a serious problem for early western settlers. In the upper Midwest, in the late 1800’s it was necessary to hire two crews for each logging camp because it was not unusual for half of the workers to be out at any one time with malaria. This mosquito-transmitted blood parasite continued to be a problem in many parts of the U.S. into the early 1950s when it was brought under control by eliminating the human sources of infection. Humans infected with the parasite are the only source of malaria infection, and with the appearance of effective drugs, window screens, and a better understanding of mosquitoes and the disease, human malaria in the U. S. was eliminated. Malaria is not the only mosquito-borne disease that has caused problems in the past, even into the early 1940’s hundreds of cases of equine encephalitis were reported in the mid-west and west each year. It wasn’t until the 1950’s however that the first human cases of mosquito-borne encephalitis were recognized. Even today human and equine cases of encephalitis are not rare occurrences. In Colorado in 1987, 45 horse and 30 human cases of Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE) were diagnosed. Also, in the same year, 6 human cases of St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) were reported. In 1991, 1 human and 1 horse case of WEE was reported in the State. In 2002 everything changed, West Nile Virusarrived in Colorado.

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