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To protect the health of our families, we return to Baja California on safe and scientifically proven technological innovations around the world for their effectiveness in the fight against dengue, Zika and Chikungunya, said Governor Carlos Mendoza Davis. inaugurate the Insectarium of the Ministry of Health in the entity in the company of the director of the ISSSTE at the national level, Florentino Castro López.
At the opening of this entomological research and bioassay unit, which was also attended by the Secretary of Health in the entity, Víctor George Flores and La Paz President, Armando Martínez Vega, Mendoza Davis said that this infrastructure enabled with the support of the nonprofit civil society World Mosquito Program, WMP, will strengthen the application of Wolbachia method in two polygons of the city of La Paz, which aims to reduce case of diseases transmitted by the zancudo aed
Accompanied by Jorge Osorio, Director of Government Relations of the World Program against mosquitoes, Mendoza Davis pointed out that this innovative strategy of preventive health is based on the research of WMP to introduce Wolbachia bacteria of natural origin to flies, and so on, to prevent its sting from transmitting these diseases to humans.
This avant-garde plan, which executes a programmed release of mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia to mate with local mosquitoes and thus produce generations of insects and carriers of the virus. bacteria, has already been applied in 11 countries with positive results in reducing cases of these diseases.
The project to be developed at La Paz is not that of Florida, nor that of the Cayman Islands, but that which has been applied to Medellin, Colombia; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Cairns, Australia, where dengue cases have ceased to register after the full implementation of Wolbachia.
In this insect, flies are reared with wolbachia and examined under appropriate conditions. its dissemination and reproduction in the field, on the basis of technology approved by international health agencies and by the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control, CENAPRECE, of the federal government.
In this ceremony, the representative of the World Mosquito Program In the Americas, Jorge Osorio explained that this method, unlike most vector control initiatives, is natural and sustainable in the long run, since it does not remove not mosquito populations and does not involve genetic modifications.
] As part of this tour of the municipality of La Paz, the national director of the ISSSTE, the head of state, attended the delivery of support to beneficiaries of this institution social security scheme in Baja California Sur, consisting of housing loans
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