10. Vector and pest control - WHO

And pest importance of Vector and pest control in disasters and emergenciesSome disasters give rise to increases in the populations of Vector or nuisance species,usually insects or rodents. Floods may create new mosquito breeding sites in disasterrubble and stagnant pools. A general breakdown of sanitation may favour the multipli-cation of houseflies and rodents. People living in partially destroyed houses or primitiveshelters may have lost the normal protection afforded by screened windows or infection hazards may arise when massive migrations bring people of differ-ent origins together in temporary camps infested with disease vectors. Under such conditions, people who are relatively immune carriers of parasites can set off a disease-transmission cycle to which weaker people and people who are not immune fall of disease outbreaks observed in such situations include malaria (transmittedby Anophelesmosquitoes), epidemic typhus (transmitted by lice) and dengue fever (trans-mitted by Aedesmosquitoes).

(from rats) and Lyme disease (from ticks). When action against such pest organisms is considered during di sasters, a distinction must be made between disease controland nuisance control(see Section 10.2). The vectors likely to be present in emergency settlements and the diseases they carry are shown in Box 10.1.

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