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Expert team to visit Bangladesh for long-term solution to Aedes mosquito

To tackle the diseases caused by Aedes mosquito in Bangladesh, a joint IAEA-FAO-WHO expert team will visit Bangladesh from 21 to 23 August 2019. The main objective of the team will be to assess the feasibility of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) in controlling Aedes mosquito in Bangladesh. The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic area-wide release of the sterile males by air over defined areas, where they mate with wild females resulting in no offspring and a declining pest population.

IAEA has approved the expert mission due to an initiative taken by Bangladesh Embassy & Permanent Mission in Vienna, with the support of the Health Services Division, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and the Ministry of Science & Technology, after the dengue fever outbreak in the country.

The work of the expert team - consisting of Rafael Argils Herrero and Danilo de Oliveira Carvalho, Technical Officers of the Insect Pest Control Section at the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture and Rajpal Yadav, Scientist, Vector Ecology and Management, Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO is expected to help Bangladesh in successfully tackling the diseases caused by the Aedes mosquito population in the country.

We are trying to avail best possible scientific know-how to tackle the Aedes mosquito. We thank IAEA for prompt response to support Bangladesh in this time of need, says M. Abu Zafar, Ambassador & Permanent Representative of Bangladesh in Vienna.

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