With the summer of 2009 just around the corner, the Middlesex-London Health Unit is adding a new bug to its vector-borne disease surveillance program.
With the summer of 2009 just around the corner, the Middlesex-London Health Unit is adding a new bug to its vector-borne disease surveillance program. For years, the Health Unit has monitored the community for mosquito activity as part of its West Nile Virus surveillance program; this year the MLHU also wants the community to keep an eye out for ticks as part of a strategy to detect the presence of Lyme Disease. Vector-borne diseases are those that are transmitted by the bite of specific species of insects.
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Middlesex-London Health Unit 
