Tag: mosquito control
International Pest Control – September/October 2023 – Vol 65, Nr.5
“In a world of plenty, it is outrageous that people continue to suffer and die from hunger. Starving food systems of investment means, quite literally, starving people.” UN Secretary General António Guterres’ words, opening the UN Food Systems Summit. In September 2015 the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were adopted and December 2015 saw the […]
An innovative year-round larvicide for mosquito control
Mosquitoes are considered one of the most serious vectors of some of the world’s deadly diseases afflicting the tropical and subtropical countries. One of the devastating mosquito transmitted diseases, malaria is known to be endemic in 117 countries with 3.2 billion people living at risk all over the world and about 350 to 500 million […]
International news in brief – November/December 2016 issue
Germany: Bayer completes sale of Bayer Garden and Bayer Advanced In October, Bayer completed the sale of its Consumer business to SBM, an independent and family-owned France-based group. The sale encompasses the Bayer Garden and Bayer Advanced businesses in Europe and North America; 220 dedicated employees as well as the entire product portfolios of Bayer […]
Indoor residual spraying for mosquito control – the importance of training spray operators
Indoor residual spraying (IRS) with DDT began in the 1940’s in Sardinia where full-scale operations were carried out to control Anopheles labranchiae to control malaria. In the Italian campaign, the number of cases of malaria fell from 78,173 in 1944 to 44 in 1950. This led to WHO launching a Global Malaria Eradication Programme in […]
