DOH-Citrus Conducts Community Outreach for Mosquito Illness Prevention

Citrus County, Fla. — The Florida Department of Health in Citrus County (DOH-Citrus) will be conducting education outreach November 13 in east side area neighborhoods.

Teams representing DOH-Citrus will be going door-to-door to provide mosquito prevention education and resources — such as insect repellent and mosquito dunks — to area residents.  The goal is to prevent continuing transmission of the dengue virus.

Dengue can present as a flu-like illness with severe muscle aches and joint pain, fever, and sometimes a rash. Typically, there are no respiratory symptoms. Symptoms may appear within 15 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. Dengue fever is not contagious and is transmitted only through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito.

DOH-Citrus reminds all Citrus County residents to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes by taking these basic precautions.

For more information, call 352-527-0068.