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CATEGORY: Mosquito

Bike to Work Day 2010

 Today is the 16th annual San Francisco Bay Area Bike to Work Day.

 

The SF MAC Team was in the office bright and early this morning as usual to hit the pavement fighting mosquitoes. The recent rains have caused increased mosquito breeding and the MAC Team has been hard at work checking out mosquito activity throughout the city. Here are some pictures from this morning. You can follow the Bike to Work day action on twitter at #biketoworkday and #btwd

 

Check back later today for more updates about Bike to Work Day.

 

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... and Remember, if you see us out in the streets of SF, feel free to say "Hi!"

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CATEGORY: Carbon Neutral

Preparing for Bike to Work Day

This Thursday May 13th is the 16th Annual San Francisco Bay Area Bike to Work Day!!!

 

We are working on a feature for Bike to Work Day on our Bikers who work in the City and County of San Francisco throughought the Spring, Summer and Fall fighting the mosquitoes bugging you! Look for the feature later in the week. For now check out the links below for information about the 16th annual Bike to Work Day, so you too can prepare for a beautiful commute on Thursday!!

From the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition: Bike to Work Day!!!

 

The City and County of San Franciso Department of Public works page on Bike to Work Day.

 

From The Bay Area Bike Coalition: Bike to Work Day.

 

The official Bike to Work Day facebook page.

 

Information about Bike to Work Day from Fun Cheap SF

 

Information on the Timbuk2 Bike to Work Day energizer station and afterparty

 

Information on Bike to Work Day from SF.StreetsBlog.org.

 

We look forward to seeing everyone out and about on their Bikes on Thursday! If you see any of us working while you are commuting feel free to say hello!!!

 

You can contact the SF MAC Team at sfpucmacteam [@] gmail [dot] com

CATEGORY: Biking

Dr. Jesse William Lazear and lasers!!!!

 

 

Jesse William Lazear  was featured this week on Dead Scientist of the Week. Lazear studied vector transmission in Mosquitoes and proved that Yellow Fever   was transmitted to humans via mosquitoes:

While he worked at Johns Hopkins, Lazear had followed the research of Sir Ronald Ross concerning the mosquito vector for the transmission of malaria. This experience allowed Lazear to be open to the theories of Cuban scientist Carlos Juan Finlay, who believed that mosquitoes were the vector for the transmission of yellow fever. By June of 1900 Lazear was culturing mosquitoes, from samples he had obtained from Finlay. The board however, acting under the instructions of Army Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg, had been investigating Bacillus icteroides as the causative agent for yellow fever. This line of research quickly proved to be fruitless and Lazear was well prepared to pursue research using mosquitoes as a vector for the disease.

The project started on August 1, 1900, using the mosquitoes that Lazear had cultured. Recording his experiments in a small pocket notebook, Lazear recorded the work of raising and infecting mosquitoes, and on August 11th to the 31st recording a series of inoculations, the last two of which produced full blown cases of yellow fever, proving that the vector for the disease was a mosquito.

-from Dead Scientist of the Week

Mosquitoes are a carrier of various dangerous infectious diseases. Without the work of scientists such as Sir Ronald Ross and Dr. Jesse William Lazear we would not have the knowledge necessary for the SF MAC Team to protect the citizens of San Francisco. For this reason we salute Jesse William Lazear.... and in honor of his namesake and his excitement about mosquitoes, we give you: LAZERS AND MOSQUITOES!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Here is Wired magazine's article discussing the video above. Enjoy!

 

If you have any questions for the SF MAC Team, feel free to email us at sfpucmacteam [@] G mail [dot] com

CATEGORY: Vector Control

West Nile Virus Awareness Week

Mosquito Larvae From Mosquitoes

 

The California Legislature has declared this week West Nile Virus Awareness Week!

 

The mosquito Season has official begun here in California, but don't worry, the SF MAC Team has been working hard since February to make sure the mosquitoes in SF are not posing a human health risk to the residents of San Francisco. During the wet season it has been bikes vs. the mosquitoes and the elements. As the summer progresses we will work harder to insure the mosquitoes are not bugging you! If you seen any of our bikers out and about, feel free to say hello. The more we hear from YOU about mosquito activity, the better we are at keeping them to minimum.

 

Since 2005 there have been 66 fatal human cases of the West Nile Virus; however, there has never been a fatal case of West Nile Virus in the City and County of San Francisco, thanks to the efforts of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the SF MAC Team.

 

The SF MAC Team was created in 2005 in response to the growing threat of WNV in California, and has been keeping the mosquitoes bugging the residents of San Francisco in check for the past 5 years.

 

Here is the California Department of Health's release about West Nile Virus Awareness Week.

 

Check out the NPR West Nile Virus Topic page for recent stories on the West Nile Virus.

 

The Sacramento Bee has an article from this week about the dangers of the West Nile Virus.

 

 

Fore more information about the SF MAC team, or to please contact sfpucmacteam [@] gmail [dot] com

CATEGORY: Human Health