The Sahel region is grappling with an outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne disease.
- Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
This mosquito spreads very fast to new areas and can adapt to various climatic conditions, unlike the non-invasive malaria vectors.
The country’s urban centres where unvaccinated people live in crowed settlements are key risk areas.
Il n’est pas parfait, mais un premier vaccin contre le paludisme vient d’être recommandé par l’OMS. RTS,S est un espoir. De quoi relancer la lutte contre un parasite dur à combattre et à traiter.
The WHO and the manufacturers of the vaccine will be rallying countries, particularly those with high malaria burdens, to adopt the vaccine.
The pandemic coincides with the long rainy season in Kenya. Rain increases mosquito breeding sites, vector density and thus transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.
Myiasis, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe clinical outbreaks in humans and animals with potential economic losses in the livestock industry.
Prolonged rains increase the amount of stagnant water in the environment in which mosquitoes breed. This increases the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.
While no deaths have been reported in Ethiopia so far, outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease spread rapidly and have severe impacts on public health.
As rain continues to fall in Kenya, national and county governments must put measures in place to prevent a Rift Valley fever outbreak.
Baringo county and other areas on the western side of Kenya are struggling to reduce their seasonal malaria caseloads.
Kenya must establish policies to tackle dengue fever and chikungunya, like it did for malaria.
In the future, traps for mosquito that spread the dengue and chikungunya virus could be made from the carbon dioxide in human breathe as well as body odour.
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