FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Monday, June 27, 2016
CONTACT:  Lon Kightlinger, (605) 773-3737  

                            Health Department Awards $500,000 For Mosquito Control

PIERRE, S.D. – More than 200 South Dakota cities, counties and tribes will share in $499,854 in grants intended to control mosquitoes and prevent West Nile virus (WNV), the Department of Health announced today.

All applying communities received funding, with grants ranging from $450 to $20,000. Grant awards were based on the population of the applying jurisdiction and its history of human WNV cases through 2015.  

Since the state’s first human case in 2002, South Dakota has reported 2,208 cases, including 696 hospitalizations and 32 deaths. Every county has reported cases. This season South Dakota reported its first human WNV case, a Minnehaha County resident, on June 24.  

Including this latest round of grants, the state has provided local mosquito control programs with more than $6.5 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 follows.  

See westnile.sd.gov for prevention information and surveillance updates.

Preventing and controlling infectious disease is one objective of the Department of Health’s 2015-2020 strategic plan, http://doh.sd.gov/strategicplan.

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City, County, Town or Tribe / Grant Amount
Aberdeen      $20,000
Akaska     $750
Alexandria     $ 2,236
Altamont Inc     $750
Andover     $500
Arlington     $1,130
Armour     $2,052
Artesian     $1,861
Astoria      $750
Aurora     $1,126
Avon     $941
Baltic     $1,131
Belle Fourche     $6,901
Beresford     $2,250
Big Stone City     $2,050
Bon Homme County     $1,000
Bowdle     $1,000
Bradley     $ 936
Brandon     $1,000
Bridgewater     $940
Bristol     $938
Britton     $7,052
Broadland      $500
Brookings      $5,216
Brookings County     $4,315
Brown County     $13,605
Bruce     $1,862
Bryant     $1,125
Bushnell     $751
Camp Crook     $750
Canistota     $1,497
Carthage     $936
Cavour     $800
Centerville     $2,054
Chamberlain     $2,624
Chancellor     $1,493
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe     $7,656
Claremont     $2,231
Clark     $2,426
Clark County     $4,074
Clear Lake     $763
Codington County     $5,000
Colman     $1,126
Colome     $1,000
Colton     $1,497
Conde     $750
Corsica     $2,051
Cresbard     $936
Crooks     $1,318
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe     $3,500
Dallas     $936
Dante     $1,121
Davis     $1,491
De Smet     $5,000
Deadwood     $1,133
Dell Rapids     $1,896
Delmont     $1,677
Dimock     $1,306
Doland     $937
Dolton     $750
Douglas County      $3,539
Dupree     $2,050
Eagle Butte     $4,648
Edgemont     $2,608
Egan City     $938
Elk Point     $1,330
Elkton     $1,127
Emery     $1,309
Erwin     $500
Estelline     $943
Ethan     $1,493
Faith     $1,494
Fall River County     $6,000
Farmer     $450
Flandreau     $1,884
Florence     $500
Fort Pierre     $3,361
Freeman     $1,000
Fulton     $1,306
Garden City     $751
Garretson     $1,500
Gary     $1,307
Geddes     $1,492
Gettysburg     $2,427
Goodwin     $936
Grant County     $3,918
Gregory     $1,503
Grenville     $751
Groton      $ 5,000
Harrisburg     $1,716
Hartford     $3,365
Hayti     $500
Hecla     $1,862
Henry     $800
Hermosa     $1,309
Herreid     $1,864
Highmore     $2,238
Hill City     $1,000
Hitchcock     $1,306
Hosmer     $937
Howard     $2,000
Hurley City     $1,680
Huron     $7,344
Interior     $2,000
Ipswich     $2,500
Irene     $1,309
Isabel     $1,306
Kennebec     $1,500
Kimball     $1,682
Kranzburg     $754
Lake Andes     $2,794
Lake City     $1,491
Langford, Pierpont, Roslyn, Eden Cooperative     $2,978
Lemmon     $2,427
Letcher     $2,602
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe     $5,381
Madison     $2,655
Marion     $1,128
Martin     $2,796
Marvin     $935
McIntosh     $1,681
McPherson County     $2,244
Meade County     $4,862
Menno     $1,311
Midland     $936
Milbank     $2,634
Miller     $3,357
Mission     $3,000
Mission Hill     $1,000
Mobridge     $2,500
Mound City     $936
Mount Vernon     $2,235
New Effington     $1,493
New Witten     $1,676
Newell     $3,716
Nisland     $2,048
North Sioux City     $1,161
Northville     $1,500
Nunda     $935
Oacoma     $1,125
Oelrichs     $936
Oldham     $936
Onida     $4,647
Parker     $2,055
Parkston     $2,060
Philip     $3,000
Pickstown     $937
Pierre     $10,000
Plankinton     $1,497
Platte     $1,687
Pollock     $1,307
Potter County      $3,520
Presho     $1,865
Pukwana     $2,048
Ramona     $1,122
Rapid City     $20,000
Ravinia     $1,121
Redfield     $4,473
Reliance     $752
Roscoe     $1,308
Rosholt     $1,576
Salem     $1,873
Scotland     $1,313
Selby     $1,496
Seneca     $935
Sherman     $752
Sioux Falls     $20,000
Sisseton     $3,500
Spink County     $7,402
Springfield     $955
Stanley County      $2,599
Stickney     $1,123
Stockholm     $750
Stratford     $1,861
Sturgis     $4,136
Summit     $753
Tabor     $2,049
Tea     $2,268
Timber Lake     $2,234
Trent     $752
Tripp     $1,126
Turton     $750
Twin Brooks     $750
Tyndall     $1,131
Valley Springs     $758
Veblen     $940
Vermillion     $4,500
Viborg     $2,608
Virgil     $750
Volga     $2,988
Volin     $1,000
Wagner     $2,500
Wakonda     $2,000
Wall     $1,868
Wallace      $751
Walworth County     $3,517
Warner     $2,000
Watertown     $6,690
Waubay     $1,866
Webster     $3,544
Wentworth      $1,122
Wessington      $2,232
Wessington Springs     $1,685
Westport     $2,659
White     $940
White Lake     $1,309
Whitewood     $1,684
Winner     $4,664
Wolsey     $2,049
Woonsocket     $2,500
Worthing     $1,314
Yale     $1,121
Yankton County     $4,969
TOTAL AMOUNT AWARDED     $499,854