WestNileVirus-L: USDA CSREES National Pest Alert for WNV

From: Susan T. Ratcliffe <sratclif_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: May 16 2002

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Order your West Nile Virus National Pest Alert fact sheets now!
USDA CSREES Regional IPM Programs and the Pest Management Centers, in
cooperation with representatives from the northeast, north central,
western and southern regions, are preparing a national pest alert fact
sheet for West Nile Virus.  The fact sheet, a one page two-sided
educational fact sheet appropriate for distribution in any of the
regions, will be available for purchase at $50 per 1,000.  Please
submit your orders to me at
sratclif@uiuc.edu by Friday, May 17,
2002.  A printed version will be produced if we receive orders
that total 20,000 copies.  We will also provide access to a pdf
version that states may link to from their web sites. 
The purpose of the national pest alert is to provide an informational
document for the general public and provide easy access to the current
information available.  This is a large scale project that will
include the four USDA regions.  Please distribute this information
to your state health departments, environmental protection agencies,
extension offices, mosquito control and abatement programs, PMC state
project leaders, and others as appropriate.   
The fact sheet will address mosquito biology/life cycle and discuss its
ability to vector viruses and diseases and provide a web address for more
information.  The publication will be very similar to the Soybean
Aphid Pest Alert fact sheet, currently available on-line as a pdf at
<a href="http://ipm.uiuc.edu/publications/20425.pdf.%A0" eudora="autourl">http://ipm.uiuc.edu/publications/20425.pdf</a><a href="http://ipm.uiuc.edu/publications/20425.pdf.%A0" eudora="autourl">.
</a> The PMCs will host a web site that will have links to all the
national and state information and will be referenced on the back of the
fact sheet.  
While many states have large scale involvement and multi-agency
collaboration, others do not have this level of activity (at this
time).  National projects, like this, allow states to access
important education information materials at a fraction of the costs of
developing them on a state by state basis.  We do not anticipate any
survey work and do not plan to develop a reporting system, like the one
for the soybean aphid, because we believe these areas are well covered by
other agencies and programs.  We have identified state contacts in
22 of the 50 states, with multiple contacts in some states.  I have
attached a list of states that do not have a contact person
designated.  Please take a moment to review the list and if your
state is on the list, forward contact information or notify us if you do
not have a person in your state to serve as a contact.  I hope this
email provides information on the purpose and intent of the pest alert
and I look forward to working with you on this project.  If you have
any additional questions, please let me know and I will do my best to
answer them.  Take care, Sue 
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Susan T. Ratcliffe, Ph.D. 
North Central IPM Facilitator 
University of Illinois 
Department of Crop Science 
S-316 Turner Hall 
1102 S. Goodwin Avenue 
Urbana, Illinois  61801 
(217) 333-9656 (Ofc.) 
(217) 333-5245 (Fax) 
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Received on Thu May 16 13:29:25 2002