El Cuervo launches prevention plan against Nile mosquitoes

After treatment, the situation will be “completely and exhaustively” controlled. When processing of larvae, and 24 hours after this their effectiveness will be assessed, checking whether they were effective in order to repeat the treatment if necessary to the extent required by the specified monitoring. When anti-adult treatments

After twelve hours, its effectiveness will be assessed and monitored, and treatment will be repeated if necessary.

Moderate risk

The City Council notes that El Cuervo is located in Level 3, moderate risk, since last 2023, after the same virus was detected in birds more than 1.5 kilometers from populated areas. And the public health law requires the creation of a PMVCV, not because there is more risk

than the one that already existed in the previous season. Thus, diagnostics will be intensified, especially at distances less than 1.5 km from urban centers and in risk zones in busy rural areas. There will also be entomological supervision increase (frequency) on larvae and adult mosquitoes.