We’re learning more about vector control in animal health. AHD sponsor Ceva Animal Health has helped our industry understand the need for mosquito control to help prevent heartworm. Its Double Defense protocol focuses on repelling and killing mosquitos outside the dog while killing heartworm larvae inside the dog.
But what about you and me? Not all of the mosquito prevention products for humans work or are safe. To learn more, BottomLine spoke with medical entomologist Joe Conlon, MS, currently a technical adviser to the American Mosquito Control Association.
Sponsor: Bottom Line, Inc., July 7, 2017.
Look for an EPA registration number—usually on the back label—on any repellent you’re considering buying. To get it, a product has to undergo testing for safety and effectiveness. “If it hasn’t been EPA-registered,” says Conlon, “I would not use it.”