Last Monday, the Department of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Government of Andalusia reported that a horse had Nile virus in the town of Cártama in Malaga. From Health, they reported having already transmitted to municipal officials the public health actions that they should adopt.
Cartama is the second area of Malaga in which it was detected the presence of this virus, after its discovery in early September in mosquitoes, in Campanillas. At the moment, no people are affected.
However, the mayor of Cártama, Jorge Gallardo, responded to the statement of the Junta de Andalucía through his TikTok account, through which He asked his neighbors for calm.
@jogg007 Yesterday the media relayed news that the Commission disseminated without prior communication to the Town Hall and today the Andalusia Commission informs the Town Hall of the death of the horse due to the Nile fever virus.
♬ original sound – Jorge Gallardo Cártama
“We received this morning [de martes] the justification of the report of the Andalusian Government although it was published yesterday. The case occurred in the Río Grande region, very close to Cerralba,” the councilor said.
Thus, the mayor indicated that the affected animal died as a result of the bite of this mosquito and that it was a horse found in a horse breeding farm. “From the City Council, we urge that the Municipal Vector Surveillance and Control Plan continue to be implemented.“, he expressed, indicating that it must be carried out according to the level of risk.
Gallardo asked the population to avoid areas where there may be stagnant water near homes or even in pots and small taps inside the house that could leak water. It is essential “that you control it to avoid the possible proliferation of the virus, the mosquito, the larvae and, above all, the possible contagion”.” he said.
The councilor stressed that the population must remain calm, because in principle it is “something isolated” in the area bordering Pizarra. “We will continue to maintain the verification and monitoring checks that we do.”
It should be remembered that the Ministry of Health maintains surveillance continuous surveillance and mosquito control actions which are carried out by the pest control companies contracted by the municipalities of Cádiz and Seville, based on the analysis of weekly results of species, densities and circulation of the virus.
Furthermore, according to the data obtained from the different sources of information, it can be concluded that the female mosquito populations Potential emitters maintain the low densities observed during the first three weeks of September in most traps, as they have indicated.
More recommendations
The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs insists that the population muste take preventive measures to avoid mosquito bites during the hours of greatest activity of the species transmitting this disease (around dawn and after dusk), both individually – use of approved repellents for topical use and light clothing covering most of the skin – and domestic – use mosquito nets or environmental repellents – especially for the vulnerable population with compromised immunity.
