Southern California has some of the country's busiest attractions and commercial airports. In fact, more than half of the travelers to California enter through Southern California.
🦠 If travelers return home or visit family in Southern California, they may unintentionally bring back diseases that can be spready by local Aedes mosquitoes.
The presence of Aedes mosquitoes in California poses a threat. Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses can be transmitted in infested areas from returned infected travelers.
Travelers can protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites. When traveling to countries with dengue, chikungunya, or Zika, use insect repellent, wear long sleeves and pants, and stay in places with air conditioning or with window and door screens.
Continue to use repellent to stay bite-free. You may have the virus in your body and not show any symptoms. Also, continue to remove any stagnant water around the home to keep mosquitoes away.
SoCal Mosquito is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and
channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, SoCal Mosquito
has a policy of providing an accessible website compatible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and
commercial screen reading software. All features of the website are coded to allow individuals with vision and
other impairments to understand and use the website to the same degree as someone without disabilities. We welcome
feedback and can often resolve issues in a timely manner if they arise.
If you need any special assistance or accommodations
SoCal Mosquito has designated a compliance officer for website disability-related accommodations.
The compliance officer has received training in website accessibility and updates the site in accordance with those best
practices. Contact our accessibility officer to report an issue.
Compliance Procedures and Reports
In addition to testing with users with a wide range of disabilities and coding our website to WCAG standards,
SoCal Mosquito regularly scans its website to ensure ongoing compliance, and makes timely
changes to any inaccessible changes, if any are found. In our ongoing commitment to transparency, we make the
last three months' reports available to the public.
August 2021 Website Accessibility Compliance Report
July 2021 Website Accessibility Compliance Report
June 2021 Website Accessibility Compliance Report
Linked Documents and Third Parties
Please note that this site may link out to third-party websites, such as state or federal agencies, that do
not have accessible content. This site may also include documents provided by third parties included in our
agenda packets, for example. While we cannot control the accessibility of content provided by third parties,
we are happy to assist any member of the public with reading and accessing content on our site.
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