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 Health & Beauty | September 2006 
Mexican Sinaloa State Fights Dengue
 Prensa Latina
Mexican health authorities are developing an emergency operation to prevent and control dengue in Sinaloa state, on the Pacific coast, which was affected by Lane hurricane.
Cleaning of houses, fumigation of over 120 communities, entomologic measurement to learn about the behavior of the population of Aedes Aegipty, the transmitting mosquito of the disease, are some of the actions currently carried out to avoid an epidemic.
Oscar Velazquez Monroy, director of the National Center for Epidemiology and Disease Control (CENAVECE) reported that the district has enough larvicides and trained personnel.
He insisted that fumigation will only work as long as mosquito breeding sources are eradicated inside and outside the houses, and exhorted all settlers to keep taking effective and permanent action to this end.
Health Secretary of the state Hector Ponce asserted they reinforced the health infrastructure and increased the resources in Sinaloa, in order to avoid outbreaks of the disease.
He reiterated that the most important task must be carried out by the population in their houses, eliminating any gap for the mosquito to reproduce, avoiding open garbage bins and water containers.
Jorge Mendez, director of the Program to Prevent Diseases Transmitted by vectors, warned that after the heavy rains the meteor left, the presence of Aedes Aegipty grubs in house patios is between 30 and 60 percent.
Those larvae will soon become mosquitoes; hence the urgent need to pay attention to the risk of having mosquito deposits, the expert said. |
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