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Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 

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This web site was designed primarily to provide information on human health and ecological risk assessments of West Nile virus and tactics used for mosquito management. The work presented here was accomplished through a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Deployed War Fighter Protection Program and administered by the Armed Forces Pest Management Board. Additional support is from the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, Montana State University.

Dr. Robert K.D. Peterson is Associate Professor of Entomology at Montana State University, where he leads research, teaching, and outreach program in Agricultural and Biological Risk Assessment.

Jerome Schleier is a graduate student at Montana State University working towards an M.S. degree in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences.  He received his undergraduate degree from Pacific University in Environmental Science with emphasis in toxicology and biology. His thesis project includes the determination actual environmental concentrations of mosquito adulticides used for mosquito management and the human and ecological risks associated with the adulticides.

Dr. Frank Antwi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Montana State University, where he is working on human-health risk assessment for mosquito repellents and non-target insecticide toxicity.

Dr. Paula Macedo was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Montana State University, where she worked on human-health risk assessment of vector-borne diseases and vector control tactics. She is currently Laboratory Director at the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District in Elk Grove, CA.

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