TIGER MOSQUITO
Globalization and climate change favor the appearance of new plagues.
The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), has already flown to our geography. According to the risk assessment made by the ECDC, this insect has spread throughout all the provinces that are next to to the Mediterranean. But it has also be detected in the Basque Country.
Experts believe that the insect came just over a decade to Catalonia by road, in a transport truck. A year ago, it arrived to Gipuzkoa,it is assumed that after crossing the border with France. For two years, the company Neiker-Tecnalia carries out weekly inspections to detect its presence in Behobia, samplings that recently muestreos que recientemente have been extended to the N-1 in Alava and the AP-8 in Bizkaia.
Although its appearance is peculiar, with its length white sash from which its name came from, it is not easy to difference them because of the size(between 2 and 10 mm) and agile fly. However it is clearly distinguishable by their bites, considering that as well as being more painful, they occur during the day, while the ones of the common mosquitoes occur during the night. It is the female mosquito the responsible of the bites.
The greatest danger of this new plague is its ability to transmit diseases like dengue, the tropical virus Chikungunya and the most famous one, zika. This cases of this illnesses have also appeared in Biscay.The movement of people, immigration and merchandise traffic have brought new diseases and new plagues that are capable to transmit.
Irati Irizar and Izarra Arredondo
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