Mayor Mike McMillan said the city has contracted with VDCI to ramp up its efforts in identifying and targeting mosquito species after two cases of a rare mosquito-borne virus were confirmed in and near the city.
Spanish Fort Mayor Mike McMillan said Tuesday that the Spanish Fort City Council, during its meeting Monday night, voted on a contract with Arkansas-based VDCI Mosquito Management to survey the area, and to apply different kinds of sprays aimed at killing different species of mosquitos.
McMillan said the city routinely sprays for mosquitos, “every week and every mile in the city.” But he said that the city does not spray “more than once a week” out of concern of the insects building up immunity, which “defeats the purpose,” the mayor said. One of the confirmed cases was in Spanish Fort. The other is near the city in an unincorporated area of Baldwin County, McMillan said.
“We are adjacent to a swamp, the Delta,” said McMillan. “There are a lot of different breeds of mosquitos. You worry about the places that hold water and the board of health is doing tests on reports of standing water.”
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