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707-285-2200 (office)
595 Helman Lane, Cotati, CA 94931-9736

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PHONE
800-231-3236 (toll free)
707-285-2200 (office)
707-285-2210 (fax)

ADDRESS
595 Helman Lane
Cotati, California
94931-9736

HOURS
Monday through Friday
7:00AM to 3:30PM

LONGER, ILLLUSTRATED REPORTS:

  • "Educating Californians on Lyme disease" [Infections go undiagnosed]
    [S. F. Chronicle 9-2-2005]
  • "Plant imperils Laguna" [Mosquito control challange]
    [Press Democrat 2-8-2003]
  • "Guardians in the henhouse" [West Nile virus]
    [Press Democrat 10-23-2002]
  • "Blood relatives" [Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis & Babesiosis]
    [S. F. Chronicle 4-29-2001]
  • "SSU students hunt Lyme-disease ticks"
    [Press Democrat 3-10-2001]
  • "Rat Problem Spreads to Sonoma County"
    [Press Democrat 7-6-2000]
  • "Deadly Virus: Evidence of hantavirus in Yolo County"
    [San Francisco Chronicle 6-5-2000]
  • "Chicken check" [Arbovirus surveillance]
    [San Francisco Chronicle 9-17-1999]
  • "When work bites back" [Mosquito surveillance]
    [San Francisco Chronicle 9-10-1999]
  • "Greenbrae residents told to cope with rats"
    [Marin Independent Journal 2-12-1999]
  • "San Francisco bayshore's most numerous resident "
    [Calif. Coast & Ocean Winter 1998-99]
  • "Lizards Slow Lyme Disease in West"
    [San Francisco Chronicle 5-17-1998]

SHORT NOTICES:

  • "Plague discovered in national forest"
    [Press Democrat 8-14-1999]
  • "Plague warning in Mendocino County"
    [Press Democrat 6-02-1999]

BULLETINS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • "Mosquito Notes"
    [Argus Courier 4-4-2001]