Zika Outbreak

The Pan American Health Organization have put out a few recommendations to combat the Zika outbreak. The organization suggests reducing and eliminating any mosquito breeding site on your property. Related to this, people should close off their homes to mosquitos. Such methods include using window screens rather than an open window with no screen. Also, the PAHO recommends sleeping under a mosquito net to prevent bites while you are asleep. Visitors to areas with a Zika outbreak should wear insect repellent as well as cover their skin as much as possible with large clothes to limit exposed skin that could be bit by a mosquito. The final suggestion is pregnant women should avoid mosquito bites.

Brazil

Brazil has had experience combatting mosquitos. In 1947, there was a yellow fever outbreak. After 11 years of mosquito killing operations, the entire species was eradicated from Brazil. Times were different back then. There was a much smaller population in Brazil. Also, DDT was legal to use until …show more content…
People in full body suits and wearing masks carried out fumigation throughout many neighborhoods. The problem with this is: the people doing the fumigating are wearing these big suits to protect them from the harmful chemicals they are spraying; these chemicals are being put into the environment for the public to breathe and the public are not going around wearing this big suits. This is a health ethics concern. Another issue for fumigators is the public is not welcoming them into their homes. The fumigators are supposed to go door to door to provide help and discover any mosquito breeding sites. In certain parts of El Salvador, there are communities controlled by gang warfare. Many members of the public fear that these health workers could possibly be spies for competing gangs. Also, not many people are too welcoming of strangers into their house to spray toxic chemicals