Malaria, Zika, dengue or chikungunya… “vector” diseases caused by parasites, viruses or bacteria transmitted by arthropods are responsible for more than 17% of infectious diseases worldwide and cause more than 1 million deaths each year becomes Mosquitoes are the main transmitters of these pathologies. they cause about 750,000 deaths a year, including 600,000 from malaria.
Significant progress has been made in the fight against this disease due to the massive implementation of low-cost interventions (insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets, home spraying, rapid diagnostic tests, artemisinin-based therapeutic combinations, etc.). In 2015, the WHO highlighted that more than half of the 106 countries where malaria was prevalent at the turn of the century had managed to reduce the number of new cases by at least 75%.
Transmitted by mosquitoes
But in recent years, these approaches have reached their limits, and we’ve noticed…
Source: Le Figaro
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