“Here are the mosquito repellent kits on sale in Fano: Tasmanian pepper, avocado oil, chamomile and calendula in the useless post-bite kit”. While “in the repellent, essential oils of lavender and mint. And what would the repellent active ingredient be?”. The virologist asks this provocatively Roberto Burioni, who on his social profiles returns to the huge Dengue outbreak underway in the Marche municipality.
Already yesterday the expert had highlighted the need for vigorous action against the mosquito vector of the disease, a response which should include the use of “real and not ‘natural'” repellents, he had specified, in addition to the measures necessary to so that mosquitoes cannot lay eggs and therefore proliferate and, with an ongoing outbreak (which has exceeded 100 cases), also kill adult mosquitoes potentially capable of transmitting the infection.
But the composition – reported in the press – of the kit which is sold at controlled prices in the area to support citizens in the fight against mosquitoes does not convince the professor of virology and microbiology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, who posts several issues in this regard: “Timely and effective intervention is essential against infectious diseases“, he began, and for this reason the repellent would be “very useful, the larvicide would have been useful some time ago and not now, but never mind, but tell me, Fano colleagues, What is the purpose of the ‘disinfectant pen’ in the prevention of Dengue?”is the other question.
Burioni also points out that “there are 800 kits” and “Fano has 60 thousand inhabitants”. And via
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