Thousands of bloodsuckers cause inconvenience to the inhabitants of the Danube region: people cannot move normally and engage in normal activities: in 15 minutes there are up to a hundred mosquito bites. No mosquito nets and repellents help anymore. Due to heavy rains, insects multiply at an unprecedented rate against the backdrop of warm weather and high water levels in rivers.
To combat the natural disaster, the Croatian Public Health Institute announced pest control measures using chemical and biological agents. Explanatory work is also carried out among the population to prevent the epidemic. Indeed, in a couple of months, the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which is a carrier of a dangerous disease - West Nile fever, is expected to appear here.
The causative agent of this not fully understood disease - the Flaviviridae virus - is quite insidious. When it enters the bloodstream of a person or animal, the infection may go unnoticed, but in 20% of cases, the victims develop a fever with high fever, headaches, skin rashes, and even symptoms of encephalitis or meningitis. That for 15% of the sick threatens with a lethal outcome.
The World Health Organization, which has been studying the West Nile virus since 1937, has registered the spread of a deadly infection in many countries of the world. Large outbreaks of West Nile fever have been reported in Greece, Israel, Romania, Russia and the United States. Unfortunately, there is no vaccine for this disease yet.
Therefore, in the eastern counties of Croatia - Osijek-Baranja and Vukovar-Srem - where the worst situation with mosquito breeding is observed, in accordance with the Law on the Protection of the Population, they urgently prepare to combat the environmental disaster.
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