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Montserrat health officials are taking serious measures to avoid the spread of the Dengue Fever there. This against the backdrop of reports of thousands of infections and many deaths in the Dominican Republic. Residents of Montserrat are warned to take all necessary precautions to prevent mosquitoes from breeding around their homes and businesses.
As part of the plan, 98% of the country was fogged in July, according to Trevor Howe, Principal of the Environmental Health Department. Indications are that the exercise was very successful. Search and destroy operations targeting the Dengue mosquito are ongoing.
Nevertheless, Howe makes it clear to the public that since only the adult mosquitoes are killed during fogging, it is still up to them as householders and property owners to institute and maintain a regime of self-inspections of their properties to curb the proliferation of the Dengue mosquito, the Aedes aegypti. (Source: BBC Caribbean Report, July 26 2010)
Data collected during premises inspections conducted by the department show that the types of containers people must look for – the ones that contribute in large part to the high levels of the Dengue mosquito – are water tanks, drums, buckets, indoor vases or flower pots, tires, defective or open septic systems, discarded tins, bottles, broken pipes, unused swimming pools, broken or clogged roof guttering, blocked drains and other containers/areas which can collect water.
Howe’s advice to his country folk is that they must work together to keep Dengue off Montserrat. (Source: newsmontserrat.com )
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