The Mosquito Economy – Infobae

Explanations given by experts and concerned authorities about mosquito invasion focus on the increase in ambient temperature, rain and storms, which create an ideal ecosystem for insect breeding and proliferation.

But western equine encephalitis virus is a mammalian variant of the parasite, including an outbreak in horses across central and northern Argentina.

The rise of mosquitoes and their relationship with diseases like dengue affects the reality of the country in various ways, both at the health and economic level.

• Minimize trips abroad. Many prefer to stay at home with closed windows rather than going out for a walk or eating. It affects the economy in places of recreation, entertainment and sports.
• Expenditure on repellents. The community uses a vaccine to reduce bites. Although they seem less and less efficient, there aren't many options. The increase in demand for these products has led to shortages and, in some cases, speculation by manufacturers and traders.
• Increase in price of substitute goods. Vanilla essence dissolved in water has been reported to help repel mosquitoes. The value has doubled since this information was released.
• Concentration of Medical Guards and Consultations. Health centers are filled with people consulting about their symptoms, using expensive materials and clinical analyzes for both public health and private alternatives, affecting the care of other pathologies.

• lack of work. The combination of positive cases of dengue, along with the paranoia that many people have, causes them to rest and miss work if they have any symptoms, such as fever, headache, nausea or muscle aches.
• Costs of loss of animal health and specimens. Like people, many domestic and farm animals suffer from mosquito bites and require veterinary care and healthcare costs.

Thus, the mosquito has established itself in society, affecting its normal functioning, creating high costs and unproductiveness that means less income for other costs, although this can be an opportunity to focus on other problems that have a social and economic impact. .

What some say out of willful ignorance is that, from the seven plagues of Egypt to our recent mosquito invasion, the main cause of these events lies in changes in environmental conditions and the ecosystems in which insects live.

Be it mosquitoes or vinsukas, changes in their habitats force them to flock or herd to other places, even cities.

Frequent uncontrolled logging and logging across the country has created various phenomena affecting the ecological balance.

Deforestation will continue to the extent that conservation of virgin lands, whether hills, wetlands or forests, becomes a burden to their owner or, in the best cases, leaves them to a fate defined by nature. Use of these control points for animal and insect species.

They only serve to offset carbon dioxide or mitigate the effects of climate change, which is no small feat, diminishing the enormous social and economic contribution these properties make to people.

At a time when humanity continues to debate whether the damage caused by greenhouse gases is real or whether climate change is actually happening, mosquitoes are human influence on nature, creating economic consequences and regressively distributing wealth. Manufacturers of repellents range from socially conscientious to anticipatory, from prevention to relief, from life to death.

The author is director of the Ibero-American Telemedicine Foundation