Sentences with phrase «vector control strategy»

«We recommend that control programmes use a combined medical and vector control strategy to help combat sleeping sickness.»

If vector control strategies — using «tsetse targets» coated with insecticide to attract and kill flies — are added, this elimination goal is likely to be achieved within four years when coupled with any screening approach.

Not exact matches

And while vector - control specialists are already attempting to wipe out mosquito populations by introducing genetically modified sterile males into the field, that strategy will only work if the females they encounter remain loyal to their sterile mates — behavior that potentially could be elicited with a mosquito love potion informed by Duvall's research.

Continued support for the development of other novel strategies including drugs, improved case management, insecticides, and new approaches to vector control, is needed before effective dengue control becomes a credible prospect.

«The use of fish to control mosquito disease vectors should be abandoned by authorities,» says Valter Azevedo - Santos, an ichthyologist at São Paulo State University in Botucatu, Brazil, who co-authored a letter objecting to the strategy published in Science earlier this year.

Mosquitoes (Anopheles funestus) are vectors of malaria, and most strategies for combating the spread of the disease focus on control of mosquito populations using insecticides.

If DRC adopts any of the new strategies with vector control, transmission would probably be broken within six years of launching the new program in these areas — and over 6000 new infections could be averted between 2017 and 2030.

PAHO / WHO has been working with member countries for a number of years on vector control and in the coming weeks will convene experts from throughout the Americas to discuss new, more effective and integrated mosquito control strategies that would help reduce not only Zika infections but also cases of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and West Nile virus — all of which are spread by mosquitoes and are significant public health problems in the Americas.

For the past several years, most veterinarians relied on a unimodal strategy to protect dogs by prescribing oral medications, but vector control has received little attention.