HOUSTON – U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, will meet with county officials and technicians to discuss ongoing mosquito-control efforts by Harris County Public Health-Mosquito & Vector Control and other work being done to combat the Zika virus threat facing the state.
Cornyn, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, Harris County Public Health Executive Director Umair Shah, HCPH-Mosquito & Vector Control Director Mustapha Debboun and MVC technicians will participate in the meeting on Tuesday.
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The Senate will reconvene next week and vote again on a funding bill for Zika preparedness after Democrats previously blocked the legislation twice.
Cornyn will travel through Harris County with HCPH-MVC technicians to collect and set mosquito traps in a storm sewer and a resident’s yard, and then collect mosquito larvae from stagnant water that has collected in abandoned tires.
He will then join Emmett and experts at the HCPH-MCD headquarters to process and sort different species of mosquitoes, participate in demonstrations of a specialized handheld mosquito fogger and a sonic device used to kill mosquito larvae in standing water, and tour insectaries where HCPH-MVC specialists raise mosquitoes for insecticide-resistance testing.
Cornyn will then hold a joint press conference with Emmett and HCPH-MVC officials around 3 p.m.