a mosquito management operation deliberate for this evening in two Strasbourg districts

It has been a number of years now for the reason that tiger mosquito settled in Alsace. This massive striped particular person loves our area and may then generally unfold ailments akin to dengue fever, zika or chikungunya by means of its bites. On this topic, this evening, between September 8 and 9, a mosquito management operation is carried out in two Strasbourg districts. We take inventory.

It was the Grand Est Regional Well being Company (ARS Grand Est) which introduced the information by way of a press launch this Thursday, September 8. The group states that “Following the identification in Strasbourg of a case of dengue in an individual who had lately stayed in a tropical nation the place the illness is current, a mosquito management operation, aimed toward destroying and stopping the proliferation of tiger mosquitoes probably carrying the illness, is scheduled for the evening of Thursday 8 to Friday 9 September in two districts of Strasbourg ».

Anti-mosquito operation on the Orangerie and on the Place d’Austerlitz

The neighborhoods involved? Place d’Austerlitz and the Orangerie district. Why ? Fairly just because these are the areas that the contaminated individual has frequented. Nonetheless in line with the ARS, “the epidemiological and entomological investigations carried out by the well being authorities have led the identification of two areas frequented in Strasbourg by this individual throughout the interval of viraemia (length throughout which the virus being current within the blood, a mosquito biting this individual can then infect others)”.

So tonight an insecticide operation will happen on the Orangerie and on the Place d’Austerlitz. As well as, the inhabitants and institution of the 2 sectors have been knowledgeable of this operation, in addition to of the preventive measures that should typically be taken in such circumstances. So as :

• Keep inside buildings
• Shut the home windows throughout the intervention
• Rinse backyard furnishings with water
• Herald animal bowls

Lastly, all through the length of the intervention as much as half-hour after its finish, there would be the institution of a safety perimeter within the affected and neighboring streetsto stop residents from getting caught within the face of the therapy.