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Animal and Insect-borne Disease Monitoring

To control the spread of illnesses transmitted by animals and insects through disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, community education, maintaining rabies vaccination records, and other control measures.

Services Provided:

  • Consultation and investigation of wild and domestic animal bites for rabies; testing of wild animals, if available, when human bites have occurred.
  • Assessing plague activity through monitoring of prairie dog colonies.
  • Assessing risk of Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE) through regional monitoring of mosquito levels, sentinel chicken flocks, and weekly calls to large animal veterinarians to monitor for horse cases; and assessing for presence of West Nile Virus in birds.
  • Education about tick-bite prevention to avoid Colorado Tick Fever, Relapsing Fever, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Lyme
  • Disease, and other tick-borne illnesses.
  • Education and consultation on transmission and prevention of Hantaviral Illness.

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