Share practical steps for preventing rodent problems with Gulf South VECTOR’s ready-to-use graphics and captions. Help your audiences reduce food sources, seal entry points, clean up safely, and protect their homes and communities.
Challenge common pest-control myths with ready-to-share graphics and captions from Gulf South VECTOR. Help your audiences separate fact from fiction and make informed pest and vector management decisions.
Oropouche virus, a vectorborne pathogen, recently gained international attention. It has been expanding beyond its historically limited range in the Amazon basin, resulting in a 2024 outbreak in Cuba. Concerned about the potential for future introductions into Texas, Harris County Public Health (HCPH) mobilized the
Virginia Tech filmmakers traveled to Louisiana to capture Gulf South VECTOR stories through documentary filmmaking. Working alongside public health and filmmaking professionals, students gained hands-on production experience while creating engaging educational videos about disease vectors, vector control, and community health.
Lee County Mosquito Control District (LCMCD) serves approximately 860,000 residents across 804 square miles (208,235 ha) of coastal southwest Florida, including extensive salt marsh, mangrove, and freshwater habitats that support productive populations of Aedes taeniorhynchus (Wiedemann), Culex nigripalpus Theobald, Anopheles spp., and other nuisance/medically important
Join the Louisiana Mosquito Control Association (LMCA) 69th Annual Conference, December 8–10, 2026, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Connect with mosquito and vector control professionals for research and program updates, operational innovations, student and poster presentations, vendor exhibits, networking, and continuing education opportunities.
Help families prepare for the new school year with Gulf South VECTOR’s ready-to-share, expert-reviewed resources about common back-to-school pest concerns, including head lice and household pests associated with backpacks and lunch bags.
Attend the 2026 MPCA Summer Meeting on August 18 in Pearl, Mississippi. Join pest management professionals for educational sessions, vendor exhibits, networking opportunities, and CEU credits hosted by the Mississippi Pest Control Association.
The partnership between NEHA and Gulf South VECTOR has become a model of effective collaboration, combining complementary expertise, strong communication, and a shared commitment to advancing environmental public health practice.
Approximately 50 undergraduate and graduate students from the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Agriculture and Food Sciences (CAFS) visited the Gulf South Vector headquarters at the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board facility on March 28, 2026, during the 2026 Research Symposium