Health Department Awards $500,000 for Mosquito Control More than 200 South Dakota cities, counties and tribes will share in $499,767 in grants intended to control mosquitoes and prevent West Nile virus (WNV), the Department of Health announced today. “South Dakota has a disproportionately high number of WNV cases when compared to other states. Local mosquito control efforts play a vital role in protecting our communities,” said Bill Chalcraft, administrator of public health preparedness and response for the Department of Health. All applying communities received funding, with grants ranging from $300 to $20,000. Grant awards were based on the population of the applying jurisdiction and its history of human WNV cases through 2017. Since its first human WNV case in 2002, the state has reported 2,432 human cases, including 778 hospitalizations and 42 deaths. Every county has reported cases. This season South Dakota reported its first human WNV case in a blood donor from Todd County earlier this month. Including this latest round of grants, the state has provided local mosquito control programs with more than $7.5 million in support, in either direct grant funding or control chemicals, since the virus emerged in South Dakota. A complete list of funded programs and grant amounts is available here. Visit westnile.sd.gov for prevention information and surveillance updates.
2018 SD Mosquito Control Grant Program Grant recipients and amounts awarded as follows: Aberdeen Agar Akaska Altamont Andover Arlington Armour Astoria Aurora Avon Baltic
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$20,000 $1,000 $700 $700 $500 $1,429 $2,507 $881 $1,065 $1,500 $1,071
Batesland Bath Sanitary District Belle Fourche Beresford Big Stone City Bowdle Bradley Brandt Brant Lake Bridgewater Britton
$1,061 $2,322 $7,596 $2,160 $2,145 $1,065 $881 $881 $703 $1,065 $7,192
Broadland $500 Brookings $6,501 Brown County $16,750 Bruce $2,142 Bryant $1,425 Buffalo Gap $881 Burke $1,786 Bushnell $701 Canistota $1,787 Canton $2,351 Carthage $881 Chamberlain $2,884 Chancellor $1,603 Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe $8,160 Claire City $1,000 Claremont $2,141 Clark $2,691 Clear Lake $713 Codington County $5,000 Colman $1,066 Colome $1,243 Colton $1,427 Columbia $1,061 Conde $881 Corona $701 Crooks $1,433 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe $1,972 Davis $1,421 De Smet $4,311 Delmont $1,602 Dimock $1,241 Doland $882 Dolton $700 Eagle Butte $4,853 Edgemont $2,508 Edmunds County Weed and Pest $3,000 Elk Point $1,080 Emery $1,244 Estelline $1,248 Ethan $1,423 Faith $1,604 Farmer $700
Faulkton $2,867 Flandreau $1,983 Florence $500 Fort Pierre $3,321 Freeman $1,973 Fulton $1,421 Garden City $850 Gary $1,422 Gayville $1,064 Geddes $1,602 Goodwin $1,061 Grant County $4,914 Gregory $1,433 Grenville $701 Groton $5,215 Harrisburg $2,181 Hartford $3,605 Hecla $1,962 Henry $800 Hermosa $1,244 Herreid $1,964 Highmore $1,200 Hitchcock $1,241 Hosmer $500 Howard $1,609 Humboldt $886 Hurley $1,604 Huron $9,286 Interior $600 Ipswich $2,500 Irene $1,244 Isabel $1,241 Kadoka $887 Kennebec $1,422 Kimball $1,787 Kranzburg $702 Lake Andes $3,229 Lake City $1,421 Langford, Pierpont, Roslyn, Eden Cooperative $3,223 Lemmon $2,332 Lennox $1,981 Letcher $2,502 Lower Brule Sioux Tribe $2,513
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