Guayaquil Ecuador, other coastal areas increased numbers of mosquitoes

Posted on February 8, 2017 • Filed under: Ecuador, Ecuador Emergency, Latin America Health, Weather/Climate

Mosquitoes ‘more than in other years’

eluniverso.com reported (machine translated)….They hum in the ears, they lie on their arms, they stick on the legs of those who do not wear pants. Pican. They are stuck to the walls or scuffed in the rooms. They are in downtown areas, in the urbanizations of the road to the coast or in those of the road to Samborondón. They abound in open spaces, at the restaurant tables.

Mosquitoes, so called in Guayaquil and other areas of the Coast, have appeared more than other years, to say of residents of areas where their presence was scarce. These insects reproduce in pooled water or in containers and are carriers of tropical diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya and zika, depending on their variety, such as the anopheles and Aedes aegypti .

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This presence causes concern and requests for fumigation among residents of the Atarazana citadel. “They carry us here by weight. There is always time. They have come to deliver slaughter, but we need fumigation, “said Soraida Pacheco, a resident, who said she can not use insecticides because her granddaughter is asthmatic. Read Article

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