Aragon implements five new plans to combat disease transmission by insects and ticks

Aragon put forward five plans against transmission of infection from diseases To insects And pliers. In particular, Directorate General of Public Health The Department of Health of the Government of Aragon and the Animal Health Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Zaragoza, in collaboration with the five municipalities of the Community, are implementing these plans aimed at combating mosquitoes, midges and ticks.

He Minister of Health of the Government of Aragon José Luis BancaleroDirector General of the Ministry of Health, Nuria GayanProfessor of the Department of Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza and Director of the Department of Urban Pest Research and Public Health, Ignatius Blezskyand a technician at the Municipal Institute of Public Health, Emilio Martinezannounced on Tuesday the purpose of these pilot plans, as set out in the new Vector-Borne Disease Prevention, Surveillance and Control Plan.

The five pilot plans envisaged by the Aragon Plan will be developed in Zaragoza, Utebo, Binefar, Alcañiz and the municipality has yet to be determined Sierra de Albarracin. In the case of the capital, the fight will be against mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. Various traps will be installed to monitor this vector of transmission of diseases such as dengue fever, yellow fever, Zika virus and Chikungunya virus disease.

The five pilot plans envisaged by the Aragon Plan will be developed in Zaragoza, Utebo, Binéfar, Alcañiz and an as yet unspecified municipality in the Sierra de Albarracín.

The main objective of surveillance of these diseases is the early detection of their presence in order to take necessary measures to prevent them. avoid That appearance from minor matters And sproutsnativeespecially in areas where a competent vector is present, and to report active transmission of the virus at the site of infection.

For this purpose, a communication line will be organized. constant between sections Observationthe Security System and the Zoonoses Section, so that the actions are effective. Director General of Public Health Nuria Gayan explained the procedure in case of people with transmissible diseases.

Various traps will be installed to monitor this vector of transmission of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, Zika virus and Chikungunya disease.

First, there is a suspicion of a disease, which requires Doctors are trained and informed about transmissible diseasesmainly based on clinical-epidemiological criteria. To this end, the new plan will establish a priority scheme for disseminating information to health centres in affected areas in the event of local cases or cases that health authorities consider at risk.

The Aragon plan for surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases will include actions such as preliminary identification of areas and periods of greatest risk of transmission vector control, implementing pilot entomological surveillance plans in selected areas and providing technical advice in response to health alerts related to vector-borne diseases affecting human and animal health.