The mosquito does not believe in music
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
- Published in Opinion
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The revelation a few months ago of the discovery by a group of scientists from Malaysia, Japan and Thailand that the electronic song 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' by the American DJ Skrillex is "noisy enough to reduce the attack and mating of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Aa), brings in suspense many people here, who instead follow the prevention measures make louder the boisterous music to scare off that harmful vector.
According to the study published in the scientific journal Acta Tropica, that music has "effects on the search for food, attack and sexual activities of the insect transmitter of dengue, zika and yellow fever."
"Mosquitoes are based on acoustic vibrations when they mate, so males and females must tune the tones that their flights emit to reproduce successfully. Thus, the Asian researchers analyzed the behavior of the females of that species in both silence and noise, with the aim of checking whether the rhythmic waves of the music affect the vibrations they perform to carry out this natural process ", highlights the publication.
However, in Holguín more than the song of the American DJ Skrillex to control, drive away and eliminate the Aa, people have been called to take all measures necessary to destroy the breeding areas, mainly in homes, where there are uncovered water tanks; as well as go to the doctor before any symptom of arbovirosis and carry out adulticide treatment in homes.
Today the epidemiological situation continues to be complicated in municipalities, such as "Urbanos Noris", Moa and Cacocum, due to mosquito infestation as result of deficiencies in the control and inspection of work in the community, poor quality of the activity of the technicians and fumigation, as there is no timely warning or verification in situ.
All these shortcomings and others related to the low perception of the risk of getting sick cause the high level of infestation that has been sustained for months, the highest in the country.
In addition, there are insufficiencies in the quality of inspections by workers involved in the campaign in homes, work centers and other key areas.
The hospitalization of patients is essential from the first fever or other sign of the disease, as that period is considered of transmissibility of the patient to the mosquito.
The patient must remain isolated under a mosquito net to prevent transmission. Those who stay home with a fever are attacking their health, the family and neighbors, because dengue has several symptoms that cross with the disease: fever, headache, muscle pain and behind the eyes and skin rash.
Dengue must be treated by specialists, so the patient should not remain at home because nobody knows how and when it can present other health problems. In the hospital, the patient is checked systematically by the doctors and nurses until the sixth or seventh day of the first fever, while a series of tests are performed to confirm the disease.
In these summer months with students and most of the family at home, mosquitoes do not take vacations or give up, so there can be no oversight in the autofocal and other preventive measures.
