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Download the attached PDF to read an article about Asian Tiger and Rock Pool Mosquitoes - two relatively new species to the US which are more vicious, harder to kill, and which bite during the daytime.
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The “Fight the Bite” picture contest for our calendar was open to all local 4th and 5th graders in the South Lake Mosquito Abatement District. We advertised the contest at the Deerfield Farmers Market, Community Service Day, and to gradeschools in Deerfield via e-mail to parents. Primarily with the help of a teacher and the principal at Holy Cross School we received 56 excellent pictures; we used 19 of them in our 18-month calendar (one was used for the cover). Besides the 19 pictures used in the calendar, all of the pictures submitted were displayed at Deerfield Village Hall and later at the Deerfield Public Library. The calendar includes mosquito facts and mosquito jokes on each page.
Pictures used in the calendar can be seen in the video below:
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On the occasion of another celebration of World Malaria Day(25thApril), Malaria ‘experts’ and NGO allies will be moving from one media house to another trumpeting the benefits of using mosquito nets and organizing various events to mark the day.
Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa and NGO News Africa, the authoritative news portal dedicated to NGOs in Africa, wish to unequivocally express its dismay at the continuous and abysmal projects currently on-going across sub-Saharan Africa to tackle the menace.
On this day, we shall witness various malaria control agencies that are trumpeting their successes on the use of mosquito nets in the claimed reduction of malaria and the loud voices calling for cash injections into Malaria programmes.
The Roll Back Malaria (RBM), I expect, will use the platform to call for renewal of commitment and partnerships from governments and donors to support their Global Malaria Action Plan. But we deem current interventions as marginally effective and unsustainable. There is the need for critical thinking to stop the insanity of pursuing strategies that will in no way result in a malaria-free society in our part of the world. Twelve people dying every day from malaria is catastrophic to Ghana’s national development and it is disheartening to hear claims that ‘Ghana’s malaria situation is stable’.
Research has found that, mosquito nets and Indoor Residual Spraying are only 25% effective, respectively. Studies carried out in some parts of West Africa show that 38% of anopheles mosquito bites occur outdoors. As a consequence, bed nets and Indoor Residual Spraying will never break the malaria transmission cycle.
We want to use this platform to call for a discerning overview of current strategies before the situation in Ghana and the rest of Africa gets out of hand.
Since 2007 when World Malaria Day was first celebrated, malaria still continuous to kill two people every minute globally and in Ghana two people every four hours. Three years on and the situation has not changed. ! Our proposal for an efficient aerial spraying programme may be seen expensive and is claimed to be environmentally-unfriendly but no one has been able to come up with an effective way to halt the menace.
A word to a wise, is enough!
Source: Hayford Siaw
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