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Medical Entomologist Dr. Scott Campbell, Chief of the Arthropod-Borne Disease Lab at Suffolk County’s Department of Health Services, will discuss tick and mosquito species on Long Island.
Medical Entomologist Dr. Scott Campbell, Chief of the Arthropod-Borne Disease Lab at Suffolk County’s Department of Health Services, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Regional Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, will discuss the medically important tick and mosquito species on Long Island, their biology, habitat, the pathogens they transmit, and the best strategies to prevent tick and mosquito bites in adults and children. This program is sponsored jointly by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services and the Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. There will be ample time for questions and all attendees at this lecture will receive a tick removal kit and a tick disease handbook. Registration required.