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Cuba settles the zika fumigating every house
A national campaign by the army claims that the
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 11:03 a.m.
Benjamin Morales Melendez / Special ELNUEVODIA.COM
The Cuban government allowed more than five million establishments fumigated. (AP)
HAVANA, Cuba. - Cuban support a war to keep under control the ravages of zika, dengue and chikungunya in their country through intense fumigation campaign from house to house seeking, as a primary measure, to eradicate the mosquito that transmits diseases and thus cut the chain of infection from the root.
It may be a controversial measure by Western standards, but the fact is that since the epidemic zika global broke out in Cuba was declared war against the mosquito "Aedes aegypti" and have been hunting block by block.
To do this, he activated the Army, whose forces were responsible for a weekly visit the homes of each of the 15 provinces.
According to a report released this week in the debates of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), the fumigation process, which is under surveillance, allowed more than five million establishments were fumigated and participated report some 8,500 troops from army.
The fumigation campaign focused equally in 60 municipalities identified as most prevalent where the fumigations were more intense because the Ministry of Public Health (Public Health Ministry) understood that they were high-risk areas zika outbreaks, dengue or chikungunya.
Fumigation "block by block" as the government called it, it was complemented by street asperjaci?n and intensive education campaign in workplaces, schools and official media.
The basic message is: "removes and eliminates mosquito disease".
In this intense epidemiological work with controls at points of entry, as well as monitoring and preventive isolation in cases of infections adds.
The results of the spraying campaign and prevention, according to the government, are compelling. The Ministry of Public Health informed the ANPP in Cuba have been no reported cases of chikungunya this year and said that, as the zika, recorded 22 imported cases and one native, which did not cause transmission to others.
Dengue has also been brought under control, because 46 municipalities with cases of the disease in March, only one remains today in the eastern province of Guantanamo, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
"Only the systematic work and fulfilling than our quality and discipline depend on the epidemiological sustainability of the country", said Vice Minister of Ministry of Public Health, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, in his report to the ANPP.
The fumigation process in Cuba is unthinkable standards for so-called democratic societies. Weekly reach homes a couple of military and MINSAP an official who sprayed the entire area with a simple component: diesel oil and some liquid insecticide.
It requires someone to be in the residence at the time of the intervention and the house should not be occupied until two hours after spraying. The government says the process is safe and environmentally within the parameters that allows an extreme measure like this.
Most people take the government's in good spirits, preferring to be healthy and smelling of oil, to be exposed to one of these three diseases and their wake consabidas damage.
"It's uncomfortable, because the house is filled with the smell of gasoline, but there is not a mosquito, yes. I'd rather have it be clean bed with zika or otherwise of those, "he told El Nuevo Dia Do?a Rosita a resident of Havana neighborhood of El Vedado.
Others, of course, they do not see the benefit and the government itself he acknowledged that one of the biggest problems to reach 100% of homes in risk areas has been the reluctance of people to leave fumigate inside their homes.
Meanwhile, the campaign is in a stage of monitoring. And not so many military personnel seen in the street with their particular design machines.
Yes, the population has received the message and it is not uncommon to hear on the street, as was the case in a Havana market, who shout loudly: "Look, this water strip the floor you have to kill the mosquito."
http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/internacionales/nota/cubaliquidaelzikaconfumigacion-2218301/
Cuba settles the zika fumigating every house
A national campaign by the army claims that the
Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 11:03 a.m.
Benjamin Morales Melendez / Special ELNUEVODIA.COM
The Cuban government allowed more than five million establishments fumigated. (AP)
HAVANA, Cuba. - Cuban support a war to keep under control the ravages of zika, dengue and chikungunya in their country through intense fumigation campaign from house to house seeking, as a primary measure, to eradicate the mosquito that transmits diseases and thus cut the chain of infection from the root.
It may be a controversial measure by Western standards, but the fact is that since the epidemic zika global broke out in Cuba was declared war against the mosquito "Aedes aegypti" and have been hunting block by block.
To do this, he activated the Army, whose forces were responsible for a weekly visit the homes of each of the 15 provinces.
According to a report released this week in the debates of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), the fumigation process, which is under surveillance, allowed more than five million establishments were fumigated and participated report some 8,500 troops from army.
The fumigation campaign focused equally in 60 municipalities identified as most prevalent where the fumigations were more intense because the Ministry of Public Health (Public Health Ministry) understood that they were high-risk areas zika outbreaks, dengue or chikungunya.
Fumigation "block by block" as the government called it, it was complemented by street asperjaci?n and intensive education campaign in workplaces, schools and official media.
The basic message is: "removes and eliminates mosquito disease".
In this intense epidemiological work with controls at points of entry, as well as monitoring and preventive isolation in cases of infections adds.
The results of the spraying campaign and prevention, according to the government, are compelling. The Ministry of Public Health informed the ANPP in Cuba have been no reported cases of chikungunya this year and said that, as the zika, recorded 22 imported cases and one native, which did not cause transmission to others.
Dengue has also been brought under control, because 46 municipalities with cases of the disease in March, only one remains today in the eastern province of Guantanamo, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
"Only the systematic work and fulfilling than our quality and discipline depend on the epidemiological sustainability of the country", said Vice Minister of Ministry of Public Health, Jose Angel Portal Miranda, in his report to the ANPP.
The fumigation process in Cuba is unthinkable standards for so-called democratic societies. Weekly reach homes a couple of military and MINSAP an official who sprayed the entire area with a simple component: diesel oil and some liquid insecticide.
It requires someone to be in the residence at the time of the intervention and the house should not be occupied until two hours after spraying. The government says the process is safe and environmentally within the parameters that allows an extreme measure like this.
Most people take the government's in good spirits, preferring to be healthy and smelling of oil, to be exposed to one of these three diseases and their wake consabidas damage.
"It's uncomfortable, because the house is filled with the smell of gasoline, but there is not a mosquito, yes. I'd rather have it be clean bed with zika or otherwise of those, "he told El Nuevo Dia Do?a Rosita a resident of Havana neighborhood of El Vedado.
Others, of course, they do not see the benefit and the government itself he acknowledged that one of the biggest problems to reach 100% of homes in risk areas has been the reluctance of people to leave fumigate inside their homes.
Meanwhile, the campaign is in a stage of monitoring. And not so many military personnel seen in the street with their particular design machines.
Yes, the population has received the message and it is not uncommon to hear on the street, as was the case in a Havana market, who shout loudly: "Look, this water strip the floor you have to kill the mosquito."
http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/internacionales/nota/cubaliquidaelzikaconfumigacion-2218301/