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Vector control is any method to limit or eradicate the mammals, birds or arthropods, insects which transmit disease pathogens.
The most frequent type of vector control is mosquito control using a variety of strategies, four of which are:
- Habitat control: stagnant water is avoided, by removal of old tires, empty cans etc., and better management of used water;
- Insecticides, spread over mosquito breeding zones, sprayed in houses, or impregnated in bednets;
- Introduction of sterilised male mosquitoes, in order to reduce the breeding rate.
- Larvicides.
The first method is to be recommended whenever possible for its cost-effectiveness.
Used worldwide in mosquito abatement programs since 1965, temephos is the standard of mosquito larvicides.
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