The Animal Health and Welfare Center (SBA) of the municipal company of Cordoba Sanitation (Sadeco) “works throughout the year on in-depth preventive actions to avoid epidemics of mosquitoes of the genus Culex, possible transmitters of viruses, including West Nile Virus (WNV)“, according to the municipal company. So far this year, the public company has not recorded any cases of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus or any cases in humans.
“With the primary aim of preventing the spread of West Nile virus, since the year 2022Sadéco carries out river monitoring and control actions Guadalquivir between the months of April and November: as part of these actions, the SBA carries out periodic monitoring of mosquito populations using sampling traps located at different strategic points”, as detailed by the Town Hall in a note.
Thus, 19 locations with lockers are set up on both banks of the river from the section of the bridge of Abbas Ibn Firnas at the road bridge A-4. In four of these locations, the center detected the presence of mosquitoes of the genus Culexthe outbreaks were controlled with larvicides and were proven not to be virus carriers.
Thanks to the traps installed, the municipal service knows the species of mosquitoes that inhabit it, the population density and the detection of the presence of the mosquito. West Nile Virus.
On the other hand, Sadeco insists that it carries out periodic checks on the culverts of the streets, parks and gardens of the city where water accumulates for various reasons and can be a possible source of mosquitoes. This series of control actions adds to the characteristics not conducive to the proliferation of the West Nile virus in the city, making it “a low risk area“.
