This document discusses problems related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases worldwide and in India. It notes that mosquitoes thrive in India due to overpopulated and unplanned urban areas, vast rural populations, and development projects that fail to consider mosquito breeding. While mosquitoes spread diseases, the document asserts that humans are ultimately to blame for providing suitable breeding environments and that changing human behavior is key to tackling the issue. It recommends community participation through activities like mosquito net usage, waste disposal, and health education as well as legislation enforcement and new technologies like sterile insect release programs. The overall message is that eliminating mosquito breeding sites is the most effective disease prevention strategy.

1. NCSC -2020
PROBLEMS FACED
BY OUR NEIGHBOURS
Mosquito

2. DiSEASES TRANSMITTED BY MOSQUITOES
WORLDWIDE
 Dengue Fever
 Malaria
 Yellow Fever
 Tularemia
 Elephantiasis
 Rift valley Fever
 Ross River Fever
 Japanese
Encephalitis
 Etcetera

3. obSERVATION AND ANALYSIS
Who is to be blamed?
WHY MOSQUITO IS WINNING
What should be our
next steps

4. WHY MOSQUITO IS WINNING
INDIA’S INHERENT VULNERABILITY
India favoring mosquitoes with its
 overpopulated urban areas
 unplanned urban slums
 vast, poor, illiterate rural population
 inaccessible, illiterate, superstitious,
tribal communities
 unsafe irrigational projects and industries
 public with poor and callous health
consciousness

5. WHO IS TO BE BLAMED?
 As long as the mosquito breeding is
facilitated by man, mosquitoes will be there
and mosquito-borne diseases will be there.
 So, who is to be blamed? Man or
Mosquito? Obviously man
 Whom we have to tackle Primarily? Man or
mosquito? Of course, man should be
corrected first.
POOR URBAN TOWN PLANNING
OOVERCROWDED URBAN
SLUMS
INDUSTRIAL SEWAGE
AGRICULTURAL VULNERABILITY
Unsafe projects
Public, Private, Individual
Level Failure

6.  Unless man himself changes his behavior and becomes mosquito
conscious and stops creating breeding places for mosquitoes, no
government can eliminate mosquito. It is next to impossibility.
Active Community participation
 Mosquito net usage
 Septic tank latrines with outlet pipes tied
with nylon mesh to prevent the entry of
mosquitoes
 Safe disposal of solid and liquid wastes and
dust bin usage
 Health education regarding mosquito borne
diseases
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
ACTIVE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

7.  Not allowing waste water to accumulate
 keeping the residential environment clean and tidy
 Not keeping broken and empty buckets
 Not throwing refuse into the streets
 Proper maintenance of the irrigation canals
 Keeping the cattle sheds and pet homes clean
 It is the answer for not only eliminating mosquitoes
but also most of the feco- oral diseases
 Though expensive, it very cost effective when the
losses due to mosquito borne diseases are
considered.
 It also solves the problem of diseases due to
feco- oral transmission .
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE

8.  This is very essential for a country like India, where
half of its population are illiterates and poor.
 To make the people use bed nets, to make them
dispose wastes safely by septic tanks ,strict
enforcement of legislation is essential.
STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF LEGISLATION
FOR WASTES DISPOSAL

9.  With more than half the world now at risk from mosquito-
transmitted dengue fever, according to the World Health
Organization (WHO), the UN has taken the lead on a global
effort to eradicate the disease – and many others – by
measuring the impact of releasing millions of sterilized
pests across several continents
 The Sterile Insect Technique is a form of insect birth
control. It involves rearing large quantities of sterilized
male in dedicated facilities & then releasing them to
mate with females in the wild. As they do not produce
any offspring, the insect population over time.
MOSQUITO STERILIZATION TECHNOLOGY SET FOR
GLOBAL TESTING, IN BATTLE AGAINST MOSQUITO

10. ELIMINATION OF MOSQUITO IS THE MOST
EFFECTIVE PREVENTION STRATEGY
LET’S REMOVE STAGNANT WATER
AND
ELIMINATE MOSQUITOES