Keep your home safe! Tell your friends and neighbors!
What can you do? Avoid mosquito bites! Mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus bite in the early morning and early evening hours, and sometimes throughout the night. If you go out in the early morning or evening hours, wear long pants and a long sleeved shirt. Also, use an EPA-registered insect repellent with DEET, picaridin, IR3535 or oil of lemon eucalyptus in it. Put the repellent on your skin that is not covered by clothes. EPA-registered repellents keep mosquitoes from biting you. Follow the directions carefully.
Keep your home safe! Mosquitoes lay their eggs on standing water. Young mosquitoes grow in the water. It can take only 7 days for a young mosquito to become an adult mosquito. Get rid of standing water around your home.
Tell your friends and neighbors! West Nile virus is found throughout California. Dead birds and dead tree squirrels are a sign that West Nile virus is in your area. Tree squirrels and birds like crows, ravens, and jays get very sick and can die from West Nile virus. You do not get West Nile virus from touching a dead tree squirrel or dead bird.
Empty water out of buckets, old tires, flower pots, and toys.
To follow the spread of the virus, California is tracking Change water dead squirrels and birds daily for pets - and you can help! and weekly for bird baths. To report a dead bird or
Keep screens with no rips or tears on your windows and doors. Screens will keep mosquitoes out.
dead tree squirrel go to www.westnile.ca.gov or call toll-free 1-877-WNV-BIRD 1-877-968-2473
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Fight the Bite ©Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. Used with permission from Gary Sky, Tri-Counry Health Department, CO. Additional illustrations used with permission from Fairfax County Health Department, Fairfax, VA. Published by California Department of Public Health, Vector-Borne Disease Section (916) 552-9730 June 2010
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CaliforniaDepartment DepartmentofofHealth HealthServices Services California www.westnile.ca.gov www.westnile.ca.gov
CentersforforDisease DiseaseControl Controland andPrevention Prevention Centers www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/ www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/
Keep your home safe! Mosquitoes lay their eggs on standing water. Young mosquitoes grow in the water. It can take only 7 days for a young mosquito to become an adult mosquito. Get rid of standing water around your home.
Tell your friends and neighbors! West Nile virus is found throughout California. Dead birds and dead tree squirrels are a sign that West Nile virus is in your area. Tree squirrels and birds like crows, ravens, and jays get very sick and can die from West Nile virus. You do not get West Nile virus from touching a dead tree squirrel or dead bird.
Empty water out of buckets, old tires, flower pots, and toys.
To follow the spread of the virus, California is tracking Change water dead squirrels and birds daily for pets - and you can help! and weekly for bird baths. To report a dead bird or
Keep screens with no rips or tears on your windows and doors. Screens will keep mosquitoes out.
dead tree squirrel go to www.westnile.ca.gov or call toll-free 1-877-WNV-BIRD 1-877-968-2473
West Nile virus can make you and West Nile virus is is spread bybymosquitoes. West Nile virus spread mosquitoes. your family sick. You getget West Nile virus from You West Nile virus froma mosquito a mosquito West Nile virus is spread by mosquitoes. bite. bite. You get West from You can feel sick 3Nile –3 15 days after You can feel sick – virus 15 days afteraaa mosquito bite. mosquito bites you. mosquito bites you. People who getget sick may feel they You can start feeling sick 3 – 15 days People who sick may feellike like they have the flu. They may have: have flu. They may have: after athe mosquito bites you. • •Fever Fever • •Headache Headache People who get sick may feel like they • Body Aches • Body Aches have the flu. They may have: • Rash • Rash • Fever • Headache people who WestNile Nilevirus virusgetget Some people who getget West • Some Body aches sick and die. very sick and die. • very Rash Most people who have gottenreally reallysick sick Most people who have gotten Some people who get West Nile virus get have been about 50 or older, but have been about 50 or older, but very sick and die. everyone needs awareofof everyone needs toto bebe aware mosquitoes, and keep themaway. away. mosquitoes, and keep them Most people who have gotten really sick have been about 50 years old or older, but everyone needs to be aware of mosquitoes, and keep them Call your doctor clinic from biting. Call your doctor ororclinic you have questions. if if you have questions. Call your doctor or clinic if you have questions.
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Fight the Bite ©Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. Used with permission from Gary Sky, Tri-Counry Health Department, CO. Additional illustrations used with permission from Fairfax County Health Department, Fairfax, VA. Published by California Department of Public Health, Vector-Borne Disease Section (916) 552-9730 June 2010
Why should Why should you worry Why you should worry you worry about aboutWest WestNile Nilevirus? virus? about West West Nile virus can make West Nile virus can makeyou youand andyour your Nile virus? family sick. family sick.
CaliforniaDepartment DepartmentofofHealth HealthServices Services California www.westnile.ca.gov www.westnile.ca.gov
CentersforforDisease DiseaseControl Controland andPrevention Prevention Centers www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/ www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/
