El Institute of Tropical Diseases and General Directorate of Public Health of SCS have managed to eliminate the presence in Canary Islands of Aede Aegypti mosquito, dengue transmitter.
The great work carried out by all the administrations involved and the collaboration of the citizens in the detection, surveillance and elimination of this invasive species, has managed to stop the settlement of this infectious species. In the process, the collaboration of neighbors who, from the beginning, understood the importance of collaborating with the health authorities, abandoned their homes, and facilitated the work of fumigation and surveillance was fundamental.
In addition to an exemplary coordination work in the General Directorate of Health of the island and the effective participants addressing the problem and communicating effectively and quickly to the population.
Avoid the implantation of invasive mosquitoes and the transmission of diseases such as dengue, the zika and yellow fever are a priority of the General Directorate of Public Health of the SCS.
For more than 10 years we are working on the detection of invasive mosquitoes, through the Transnational Cooperation Program, with the purpose of creating maps of risk of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes. Fundamental fact at the time of assuming a situation of alarm and proceed to anl early detection, control and eradication of the invasive mosquito.
Finally, the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, he said that it is a “historical milestone, to get the mosquito removed”, since if it was not eradicated it could have had “serious problems” economic, commercial and tourist in the archipelago.
The Minister of Health, María Luisa Carcedo Carcedo, for her part, warns that tropical diseases are a “threat” due to climate change.
