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The councilman of Health, Angel Pino recalled the importance and the need for cooperation of citizens to review and remove water points stagnant we have in our homes as places where the tiger mosquito can lay eggs and thus reproduce .
Nuria Chinchilla, the municipal veterinary explained the importance of reviewing and eliminate potential water points where the tiger mosquito can lay eggs as puddles, buckets, unused containers, plates pot, jerry cans, ashtrays, drinking fountains, drip irrigation.
You should also keep adequate levels of chlorine in swimming pools, ponds and lakes and protecting wells and ponds with mosquito nets.
The municipal veterinary indicated that the tiger mosquito favors the transmission of viruses.
Recently there have been some isolated cases of Zika virus in Spain, from infected people in Latin American countries.
"Although this is not scientifically proven that the tiger mosquito we have in our environment can transmit the Zika virus and there is also little chance that all the circumstances necessary for the transmission of this virus by a tiger mosquito den, from the Department of Health we want to reiterate the importance of citizen cooperation to prevent multiplication of this insect "according reaffirmed the Councillor for Health.
Finally Nuria Chinchilla explained that public authorities are carrying out a program to control and prevent the tiger mosquito in public facilities and services "but is shown to be in the private sector where the vast majority of the population of Asian tiger mosquito. for this reason, the cooperation of citizens is requested reviewing and eliminating stagnant water points that we have in our homes. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla
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