Integrated Vector Management (WHO) | Vector Control | Mosquito Control Measure

Chief Vector Control Officer, David Williams says a countrywide sterilization and sanitization of all public buildings and spaces is ongoing. Williams told the News Room via a telephone interview that the Vector Control Services have enough resources to conduct this exercise on a routine basis. He explained that they also trained a number of other persons on how to use the sanitary agents properly. This exercise aims to reduce the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus. | News Room

Can we break the cycle of insect transmission & its impact on health? Insect Vector-Borne Diseases #GreshamLecture Many of the major diseases of humans are transmitted by insect vectors. Malaria, sleeping sickness, typhus, dengue, Zika and plague are examples where mosquitoes, flies, fleas or ticks transmit. The advantage to the infection is that you can be infected by someone you have never met, often over wide distances. The advantage to humans is that we can act on the insect vector and break