Actions to prevent the proliferation of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.

This year, due to the environmental conditions in the country, the populations of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the main transmitting agent of diseases such as Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, or Yellow Fever, may increase.

That suggest to extreme prevention and control measures in our homes, workplaces and their surroundings.

The high temperatures, the gradual increase in rainfall in the afternoon due to warming, a greater presence in the home and its surroundings of the people who inhabit it and the increase in interprovincial and international trips, somehow explain that the three factors necessary for the production of these diseases (the person, the vector and the viruses), can coincide in the same space and time.

A level of action is also required from the dwellings, since it is there where most of the outbreaks are located. The measurements are simple and their execution, at least once a week and for no more than 15 minutes.

Covering the tanks, brushing the water containers of the animals and turning the empty tanks upside down are the behaviors to incorporate in our daily actions.

In Mayabeque they implement sanitation actions against the threat of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.

The health authorities of the territory are alert to the high rate of arbovirus infestation and the increase in feverish symptoms registered in recent weeks.

A first-order task is to avoid contagion with dengue.

Specialists from the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, due to the confirmation of several positive cases, urge the inhabitants to promote local cleaning.

The residents were unconcerned about this disease by being on the lookout for the coronavirus for so many months and to reverse this situation they intensify the work of the autofocal.

Melissa Maura Gutierrez

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