ANNAPOLIS, MD (September 15, 2016) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services, will expand mosquito control services in Essex due to a public health concern over the potential for mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile virus and Zika virus.<\/p>\n
Mosquito control truck-based spraying will occur on Thursday, September 15,\u00a0weather permitting, in the Walnut Point area of Essex; between Anchor Bay Court and the end of Walnut Grove Road .<\/p>\n
Spraying will begin at or after 7:30 p.m. Any existing spray exemptions in the area will be temporarily suspended. People should avoid outdoor activities on spray nights. State and local inspectors will go door-to-door in the area to inspect properties for mosquito breeding sites and will conduct backyard spraying, as needed, to further reduce adult mosquito populations<\/p>\n
Please cooperate with state and local officials who may be in your neighborhood working to protect public health. It is critical that Maryland residents continue to survey their properties and their communities and eliminate or treat mosquito breeding sites, which includes emptying all containers of water around the home and yar<\/p>\n
For more information, including: Frequently Asked Questions, 30-second videos on how to control mosquitoes around the home, tips on how to rid your community of mosquito breeding sites, and tips on how to avoid mosquito bites, visit: www.mda.maryland.gov\/zika<\/a><\/p>\n All Marylanders are encouraged to follow the Department\u2019s new Twitter feed @MdAgMosquito<\/a> that will post unscheduled spray events and other timely information about mosquito control in Maryland.<\/p>\n For more information, call the Department of Agriculture\u2019s Mosquito Control Program at 410-841-5870 or the Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services at\u00a0410-887-3816.<\/p>\n # # #<\/p>\n Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter @MdAgDept<\/a>\u00a0and @MdAgMosquito<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (September 15, 2016) \u2013 The Maryland Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services, will expand mosquito control services in Essex due to a public health concern over the potential for mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile virus and Zika virus. Mosquito control truck-based spraying will occur Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20710,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}