Rains create pockets for mosquitoes breeding

Rains create pockets for mosquitoes breeding

A representational image of a dengue virus-carrying mosquito clinging to a leaf. — AFP/FileIslamabad:The recent rain spell would help create possible breeding sites for larvae of mosquitoes that may put the population here in this region of the country at risk of facing an outbreak of dengue...

This Friday, health workers visited the Bertha Calderón neighborhood, in district III of Managua, in order to continue the fight against mosquitoes, which transmit diseases such as dengue, Sika and malaria. The director of the Altagracia Health Center, María Auxiliadora Campos, said that every house is fumigated and slaughtered, in order to prevent mosquito outbreaks. They carry out a fumigation campaign in the 380 neighborhood in Managua. In an…