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Aedes Aegypti, the Mosquito in Deep

Date: (26/6/2009)

Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas

The dengue fever is a social disease related to people’s habits.

By Juan Reyna

Raining time is coming soon mainly in Nuevo Leon; and one of the main problems is that raining time comes with this disease called dengue fever, and the government makes everything possible for fighting transmitter mosquito’s plague.

The word dengue means “bang” and it is related to Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which is the carrier of the pathogen agent that causes this disease.

M.D. Adriana Elizabeth Flores Suarez, expert in this topic and UANL School of Biological Sciences professor shows us her point of view about disease’s and mosquito’s characteristics.

The dengue fever is a social disease related to people’s habits. The mosquito is created in any clean or unclean water container, for example, sometimes there are holes in walls where water can be accumulated,” said M.D. Flores.

Furthermore, Flores Suarez said the virus depends on people’s characteristics and habits, and we can fight it by avoiding mosquitoes’ growth, mainly in tires and clean water containers.

Types of Dengue

Dengue fever is presented in different types, the most common is classical dengue, and its symptoms are fever, headache and muscle pain.

There are other dengue fever types more dangerous such as dengue hemorrhagic fever which causes body’ mucous and a third symptom called dengue shock, that is when vital organs of the body are affected by hemorrhages and person can die.

Transmitter dengue mosquito can also be the vector of other viral diseases.

Damp conditions are perfect to this mosquito’s development.

Doctor Flores assures that it is difficult to keep with permanent health programs against this disease in our country, because there are other sanitary priorities such as the latest plans for reducing health risks.

People must be taught with the correct way of fighting the disease, this must raise people’s consciousness as well prevention, because many people think that mosquito’s first stage control and disease is the insecticide when this must be the last one.”

The insect known as Aedes Aegypti lives 16 days, the female is who has the opportunity of transmitting the virus, feeding each four days, requiring human blood protein in order to make amino acids needed by her embryo.

Once the female feeds herself with the blood of the person who already is infected, this mosquito turns into the ill pathogen carrier.

Currently, it is difficult to make a vaccine in spite of Singapore is trying its best to make it, but it is difficult, because the virus is presented in four types, four serotypes.

Research Routes

The laboratory of UANL School of Biological Sciences Medical Entomology develops research projects related to Aedes Aegypti and its stamina to insecticides which are applied for its control.

“We participate as advisories and experts group in insecticide vectors program with other institutions,” said Doctor.

Furthermore, laboratory staff has gotten satisfactions and awards in UANL, which has given prestige to his work as well as constancy and dedication in insects’ research.