Book Description

The province will continue to use the mosquito vector surveillance database and other surveillance information to determine the human health risk of WNV in the province. [...] Ontario's Program Ontario's program for vector surveillance is focused toward the prevention and the control of WNV and vector surveillance remains the mainstay for the prevention and control of WNV. [...] The weekly reports are issued by the ministry in confidence to the health units and the Partners to assist in assessing the human risk of WNV in Ontario. [...] The assessment should weigh the level of risk to public health from the mosquito-borne virus based on the most current, available evidence of local WNV activity in the human population and in non-human species (WNV-positive mosquito pools, mosquito infection rates and reported equine infections). [...] Consideration should include, but is not limited to the following: o the local surveillance findings; o the local vector distribution, vector density and species identification and mosquito infection rates of known or potential vector (mosquito) populations; o evidence of WNV Illness or mortality in the health unit jurisdiction, with consideration of the situation in adjacent jurisdictions; o the.