Mosquitoes ... fly black!

In Ho Chi Minh City, mosquitoes not only appeared in Binh Thanh district but broke out in District 7, Tan Phu district . making people miserable.

Too much, not to kill

On February 25, we were in the area along canal 19-5 in Son Ky ward, Tan Phu district. Leading us into the house, uncle Vo Van Hoc, the leader of the group 50, quarter 3, bringing the mosquito catcher to the pole to dry the clothes, the mosquitoes flew out into the flock, looking goose bumps. The net of the racket flashed with small bright spots, the sound of the tire bursts emitted continuously, the smell of the mosquito's body was scorching. Around dark holes such as corner cabinets, kitchen, bathroom . just use a light hand to see mosquitoes flying.

Ms. Chau Hong Nguyet at 451 Le Trong Tan said: 'The dark sky is the mosquito that appears more. They flew into groups like bees and bees, black from the canal rushing into the house so everyone had to close down or take advantage of eating rice early to avoid mosquitoes'.

Many people here use mosquito repellent, mosquito spray, but mosquitoes appear too much to kill.

The weekends, households along the roads 3, 7 and along the Song Tan fish pond in Tan Kieng ward, District 7 said that mosquitoes in this area are also many. Show us dozens of mosquito bites on the wrists of the wrist with red spots, Ms. Truong Thi Ngoc Tu (owner of coffee shop 17 Street 3) said: 'Standing on the ice is only 2 minutes but mosquito bites like so. This month, in the afternoon and early in the morning, the customers are absent because mosquitoes are too much. ' Mr. Dung next door has four electric rackets to catch mosquitoes.'At 6 o'clock and 18 o'clock, the racket is about 15 minutes to get a handful of mosquitoes,' Dung said. Many older people here say that decades have not seen mosquitoes as much as this time. Someone can kill nearly 400 mosquitoes in just over an hour!

Hyacinth grows dense - one of the causes of mosquitoes
outbreak in Tan Kieng Ward, District 7 (Photo: Q.Khai)

Many people here worry about dengue fever that can happen when mosquitoes get bigger every day. Ms. Chu Thi Ngoc Em (29/1 street 3) said: 'The situation of mosquitoes like us is not safe at all'.

Pollution ' spawns ' into mosquitoes

According to the people along the 19-5 canal, mosquitoes appeared a lot in about a month. At first, there were few but more dense densities, mainly due to the stagnant wastewater and dense water hyacinth. Under the canal section from Le Trong Tan running longer than 1km in the direction of Binh Tan, it is covered by a dense layer of water hyacinth, the bottom is nearly 1 meter deep sewage due to being unable to escape.

Uncle Phan Van Huu - a resident here - said previously Le Trong Tan street cut through channel 19-5 by the bridge. But when upgrading and expanding Le Trong Tan Street, it will be filled and placed under two sewers to allow the flow of the canal to be cleared.'But for some reason, the construction unit put these two sewers higher than the bottom of the canal by nearly 1 meter, causing the sewage to stagnate. Two long sewage pipes of just over 10m, we propose to lower many times but have not been resolved . ', Mr. Huu said. It is known that the project to expand and upgrade Le Trong Tan road has been implemented for more than a year by the Urban Traffic Management Area No. 1 as an investor.

Mosquitoes that appear in District 7 (about two months now) have similar causes. Along the water hyacinth drainage canal grows dense. Just by looking at the eyes, it was found that the larvae were floating on the water. Cool shady places, many plants just hit the trees with mosquitoes flying.

Talking with Tuoi Tre on the afternoon of February 25, Mr. Le Thanh Hai, director of Ho Chi Minh City Preventive Medicine Center (under the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City), said he would send a team of insect officials to survey the density. mosquitoes, lashed in two districts of District 7 and Tan Phu today (26-2).

Previously, on February 24, the Preventive Medicine Center sent medical staff of insect groups to conduct field surveys in the area of ​​Bang Ky bridge on Lang canal (in Ward 12, Binh Thanh district). . The insect group visited the house to survey mosquitoes, larval indexes, to assess the mosquito density to what extent and determine what types of mosquitoes to implement active measures to kill mosquitoes, larvae .

QUANG KHAI - L.TH.H.

2007: Dengue fever may increase

This is the judgment of the Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan.According to Huan, the reason for this statement is that the number of larvae (mosquito larvae) and mosquito index in many places is very high;Even in winter and currently spring there are people with dengue fever.If not focusing on killing mosquitoes and killing larvae during the period from now to April 2007, dengue fever may break out again, with the number of people infected may be higher than in 1998 (over 300,000 people suffer, more than 400 deaths), the biggest epidemic in many years.

Mr. Huan also said that the dengue prevention project has signed a contract with 64 provinces and cities across the country, seriously not cutting dengue prevention funding for other purposes.Deputy Minister Trinh Quan Huan added that in addition to spreading dengue fever, the disease-causing mosquito can also transmit yellow fever and the ' Rift valley ' fever is very dangerous.

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