Cary Svoboda, mosquito control specialist, collects chickens for testing in October to see if West Nile virus is emerging. With California's Mosquito Awareness Week in April, vector control staff are ...

A Jacuzzi hot tub sits in a fenced-off section of a parking lot at the Ventura County Government Center. Next to it, in a locked storage container, is an inflatable Zodiac raft. Neither is an employee ...