After the 51-year-old man who contracted Nile Fever was admitted to the San Martino hospital , the mayor of Siamaggiore , the municipality where the patient lives, issued an urgent ordinance for the adoption of prevention and control measures of West Nile and other diseases transmitted by insect vectors, dangerous for humans and animals.
The mayor Davide Dessì orders the bodies responsible for public health, health emergencies, environmental protection and land management to strengthen information so that people who live or work in the provincial area affected by viral circulation adopt the most suitable measures to reduce the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes.
But also to intensify reclamation activities with the elimination of removable larval outbreaks , to evaluate the application of targeted disinfestation interventions where subjects at greatest risk are concentrated and to collaborate for the positioning of traps for entomological research in the locations indicated by the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute. But not only.
The mayor of Siamaggiore orders private citizens and owners of industrial, artisanal, commercial activities, cultivation of plants and flowers and other agricultural activities, not to abandon objects and containers of any nature in public and private open spaces and to empty the fountains and swimming pools not in operation.
He also orders to keep courtyards and open areas free from weeds, to arrange the soil so as to avoid water collection and finally to arrange materials of different nature (tyres, various materials including waste or leftover materials ) in such a way as to avoid the formation of water collections.
