|  Literature
Review
Early
Action Recommendations
The Project Team searched the scientific, medical,
and public health literature for relevant documents. Detailed
interviews were conducted with Suffolk County Vector Control
and their counterparts in Nassau County, New York City, and
Westchester. Other vector control agencies were contacted
to understand their efforts. Environmental, health, and resource
management agencies were contacted.
One of the tasks of the literature review included
an examination of mosquito control alternatives. Early Action
Recommendations was formulated at the conclusion of the
literature review.
The Project Team was assisted in Task 3 by the
following experts:
The
marine scientists Dr. Goodbred, Dr. Brownawell, and Dr. McElroy
from SUNY at Stony
Brook’s Marine Sciences Research Center
The
human health and ecological risk assessment firm of Integral
Consulting from Maryland
The
epidemiological scientists Dr. Spielman and Dr. Pollack of
the Harvard
School of Public Health and Dr. Teitelbaum of the Mt.
Sinai Department of Community Medicine.
The
mosquito control expert Dr.
Crans of Rutgers University
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