We thought there was a fire on the market in the center of Sancti Spiritus
It turned out the houses were fumigated with DDD against the Dengue mosquito
Dengue fever also known as breakbone fever, is a mosquito-borne tropical disease
caused by the dengue virus
Symptoms are fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and
a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles
In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in bleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs
Dengue is transmitted by several species of mosquito
Treatment of acute dengue is supportive, using either oral or
intravenous rehydration for mild or moderate disease,
and intravenous fluids and blood transfusion for more severe cases
The number of cases of dengue fever has increased dramatically since the 1960s, with between 50 and 528 million people infected yearly
Dengue has become a global problem since the Second World War
and is endemic in more than 110 countries
Apart from eliminating the mosquitoes, work is ongoing on a vaccine, as well as medication targeted directly at the virus
Source: Wikipedia
Very unhealthy but everyone just stood there while the DDD
was sprayed and the bird whistled merrily...
Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (DDD) is an organochlorine insecticide
that is slightly irritating to the skin
DDD is a metabolite of DDTDDD is colorless and crystallineIt is closely related chemically and is similar in properties to DDT, but it is considered
to be less toxic to animals than is DDT
DDD is in the “Group B2” classification, meaning that it is a probable human carcinogen
This is based on an increased incidence of lung tumors in male and female mice, liver tumors in male mice, and thyroid tumors in male rats
Further basis is that DDD is so similar to and is a metabolite of DDT,
another probable human
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