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| The Autonomous Community has also launched an awareness campaign to prevent the proliferation of the tiger mosquito | The Mazarrón City Council continues to carry out extraordinary tasks of insect control against mosquitoes.

The Department of Health has proceeded this week to intensify these works especially in the coastal area with special attention to the urbanization of Bahia where, due to the State of Alarm, many second homes are still closed.

Something that causes a proliferation of this insect in those private properties on which the consistory cannot act.

Camposol has also been acted with special attention, where sector D continues to be an important focus due to the large number of abandoned houses. Likewise, the Ministry of Health has launched a campaign to prevent the proliferation of the tiger mosquito in the Region of Murcia and in order to reduce the discomfort they cause to people, as well as the transmission of diseases such as Zika, dengue or chikungunya.

This insect arises from the larvae that live in small accumulations of water that remains stagnant for at least a week, so it is essential to educate the population. In addition, 80 percent of the spaces where these vectors can inhabit are private, hence the importance of this awareness raising for the population to adopt measures to prevent the proliferation of mosquitoes.

Thus, under the slogan 'Bon Appétit', the campaign uses humor and irony about the feast for these insects stagnant water in an animal trough or in a broken pot. Environmental hygiene must be carried out both in the public sphere, where the municipalities are competent, and in the private sphere, where it is the owners and users who must develop it. Get rid of waste and garbage that can accumulate water such as tires or cans; turn objects that can collect water, such as toys, ashtrays, kitchenware or watering cans, upside down; avoiding accumulations of water in gutters and drains by keeping them clean to avoid clogging and applying bleach or authorized larvicides or emptying objects that have water such as vases, flower pots or animal troughs every two or three days are some of the main recommendations. Also keep tanks and tanks perfectly closed, avoiding cracks and covering vents and water drums with mosquito netting, as well as keeping swimming pools and ponds clean and perfectly chlorinated, and applying larvicides or using fish in ponds and fountains, avoiding fish exotic invaders like gambusias. These insects usually bite mainly at dusk and dawn, especially on the legs and feet.

For this reason, it is advisable to use repellents at those times, wear light clothing, long pants and long sleeves, wear proper body hygiene to prevent them from being attracted by sweat and strong odors, and install mosquito nets or use electrical devices against mosquitoes. Public Health develops the Entomological Surveillance Program in order to know the distribution of this insect in our territory and to obtain activity and population parameters of it in order to guide control measures and evaluate them once they have been carried out. In collaboration with the University of Murcia, two hundred geo-referenced sampling points have been established and distributed throughout all the municipalities in the Region.

The samples are collected every two weeks by municipal technicians and the presence of tiger mosquito eggs in them is determined.

In the current fortnight there are already 53 percent positive samples from 30 different municipalities.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón