2023-05-03 03:56:15
What’s smaller than a one euro coin, has black and white stripes all over its body, is super voracious, and lives within 150 meters of its birthplace? The composite portrait corresponds exactly to the tiger mosquito, Aedes Albopictus for friends, a species of mosquito native to Southeast Asia which takes its ease, from year to year, in the department.
Potential carrier of infections, and capable of transmitting certain so-called tropical diseases such as dengue fever, Chikungunya and Zika to humans, the tiger mosquito is subject to “reinforced surveillance” set up each year from 1is May to November 30 by the Regional Health Agency (ARS), to raise public awareness and fight once morest its proliferation.
In 2022, the small harmful insect, particularly active at dawn and at nightfall, was reported in 80 municipalities in the department (out of 392). With…
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