Traps to the tiger mosquito for study and eradication

Councilor for Health Catalina Perez attended this morning to the placement of the first of the five traps that have been placed in the municipality of San Javier, within the Regional Surveillance System of the Tiger Mosquito. Pérez explained that this monitoring program and study, launched by the Health Ministry with the collaboration of the town councils, aims to collect information on the presence of the tiger mosquito to elaborate a action plan that leads to its eradication.

The municipal inspector of Public Services, Víctor Hernández He explained that San Javier will have five points, one in Santiago de Chile La Ribera, two in San Javier, one in El Mirador and another in La Manga coinciding with points where the presence of this has been detected mosquito biting especially annoying, that in recent years advances on the Spanish Mediterranean side.

Hernandez explained that each point will have two traps ecological, consisting of a cylinder surrounded inside by a paper, with a liter of water and three balls of alfalfa that the mosquito will identify as food being trapped. Every 14 days Samples will be collected for analysis and study in the Vector laboratory in the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital, of Murcia.

The Regional System of Vigilan