The Central Board of Health has placed a pause on its fogging anti-mosquito
campaign due to high winds that have been forecast for the remainder of the week.
However, according to Acting Principal Public Health Inspector, Julienne Mannix
the department is not letting up on its other methos used to rid the country of the
aedes aegypti mosquito which spread diseases such as dengue fever.
“Because of the high winds we decided not to continue our fogging operations this
week. Under these circumstances, the fogging would be ineffective as the winds
would just plow away the chemicals making them useless in the fight to eliminate
the mosquitoes,” Mannix explained.
She added that the high winds cause the chemical not to get into contact with the
mosquitoes.
With the pause on fogging, the department will continue visits to homes to treat
water catchments, stagnant water as well as to treat other stagnant water that are
sited in various communities.
Mannix further explained that the fogging plays a major role in the anti-mosquito
campaign especially in arears where there are reports of an outbreak in the dengue
fever. The fogging is then used to help eliminate the mosquitos thereby reducing
the chances of mosquitoes that are infected with the virus passing it on to humans.
The mosquito is the only conduit of transferring the virus from human to human.
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