Senior Environmental Health Officer calls for a change in the mindset in eliminating the Aedes Aegypti Mosquito

​Senior Environmental Health Officer, Sylvester St Ville, is calling for a change in the mindset of the public in eliminating the breeding grounds of the Aedes Aegypti Mosquito in Dominica.
St Ville says it is not just a fight for the Ministry of Health, but rather a nationwide one and all citizens must play their part.
He says more persons, particularly the country's men need to come on board in the fight against the disease spreading mosquito.

​Senior Environmental Health Officer Sylvester St Ville
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Meantime, Chief Environmental Health Officer, Ferdinia Carbon, says men do need to be informed and be more involved in this mosquito breeding elimination.

​Carbon says the breeding is more defined in certain parts of the island, with about 70% of it from water drums.

Chief Environmental Health Officer Ferdinia Carbon
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Health officials in Dominica are currently monitoring 7 confirmed cases of the Zika virus, which is spread by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito in pregnant women. Dominica announced its first confirmed case of the disease on March 15 2016.