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The Department of Health, headed by Maria del Carmen Pelegrin, this week launched a campaign to detect and control the tiger mosquito, for which the cooperation of citizens is needed.
To this end, the City will install Ovitraps distributed throughout the city to be inspected periodically and the species will be identified to you.
Detections of Aedes albopictus geoposicionarán by a geographic information system (GIS).
Public awareness is key to control sources of breeding tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), as 60-80% of larval breeding of the species in urban environments they are located in private areas, where only can exercise timely control measures owners.
A species of mosquitoes present in the traditional way, the recent emergence of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is added.
The latter has certain peculiarities in their feeding habits and reproduction that make it particularly annoying and difficult to control.
To this progressive upward trend in average temperatures that allows playback most of the year is added.
The tiger mosquito was first detected in our town in 2011 and has been extended for the same so that in the control program conducted last year we noted its dispersion over a wide area of ​​the term.
It has the capacity to act as a vector of certain viral diseases such as Chikungunya or Dengue, although so far it has not detected any cases of Murcia this insect-borne disease.
Awareness raising activities exercised by the Department of Health are aimed at informing preventive measures to avoid the reproduction of the species, protection systems indoors and outdoors and mitigation actions in the event of bites.
The information campaign will run through to 60 marquees 40,000 leaflets distributed throughout the districts, 1,000 posters in community centers, and health centers and talks to various groups and dissemination on the web (www.ayuntamientomurcia-salud.es) .
The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) has a length of between about 2 and 10 mm, is characterized by its black color with white ornamentation in the chest and abdomen and his legs with black and white stripes.
It is native to Southeast Asia and habitat usually breed in tree hollows filled with water so in our environment rather lay eggs in small containers with standing water (buckets, pots, small deposits).
The females are the only stinging as the blood meal is necessary for egg development.
They are very aggressive and one insect can sting repeatedly in a short period of time.
Bites occur mostly outdoors and more frequently in the legs, due to the low flying mosquito.
most active early in the morning and late afternoon are, although they can bite at any time.
Because the bite is fast, it is very difficult to detect the bug at that time.
In cases where mosquitoes are detected an inspection of the area will be conducted to detect outbreaks and relevant control measures are carried out.
Citizen complaints presence of mosquitoes will be received by telephone (tel. 968 247 062), email (veterinaria.sanidad@ayto-murcia.es) or general register of the City.
Upon receiving a notification of the existence of discomfort a visit to the affected area to know the problem and inspect the site person shall be heard.
If possible be identified in situ plague and otherwise traps are placed.
affected will be informed of the relevant preventive measures and breeding potential sources will be sought.
After the accurate diagnosis of the situation the most adequate control measures will be chosen.
By the Environment Service incidents detected in parks and gardens that were indicative of the presence of mosquitoes and cleaning the gutters to collect water irrigation part from street cleaning will be strengthened, to be discussed will be communicated when necessary.
Likewise EMUASA it coordinates with communication in case of detection of water stagnation motivated by leaks or spills.
Preventive physical measures are priorities so we will proceed to the elimination of outbreaks by eliminating possible accumulations of water.
Traps capture and / or oviposition are also installed.
If necessary treatments pesticides are made by active principles of biological type with the least possible hazard to public health and the environment.
Adulticides treatment shall take place only in cases where it is justified its relevance after evaluating the risks and the anticipated effectiveness and carrying out the corresponding security measures.
Active substances of low toxicity (pyrethroid) was used.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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