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The 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 Mosquito Tigre Surveillance System.
Pérez explained that this monitoring and study program, launched by the Health Ministry with the collaboration of the municipalities, aims to gather information on the presence of the tiger mosquito to develop an action plan that leads to its eradication.
The municipal inspector of Public Services, Víctor Hernández explained that San Javier will have five points, one in Santiago de la Ribera, two in San Javier, one in El Mirador and another in La Manga coinciding with points where the presence of this mosquito biting especially annoying, which in recent years advances on the Spanish Mediterranean side.
Hernandez explained that each point will have two ecological traps, 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 the samples will be collected for analysis and study in the Vector laboratory at the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in Murcia.
The Regional Mosquito Tigre Surveillance System will continue analyzing the samples collected until the heat disappears, and intends to continue next year by expanding the number of traps if necessary.
Meanwhile, the data on the level of incidence of the tiger mosquito in the different points of the Region or the areas of greater concentration will be known in order to be able to act in a more efficient way.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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