Awareness imperative to control mosquitoes borne diseases: experts.

FAISALABAD -- Experts at a seminar on Wednesday called for taking special measures and creating public awareness to control mosquitoes borne diseases.

Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad arranged the workshop-cum-seminar on "Mosquitoes and mosquito borne-diseases."

Chairing the session, UAF Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ashraf said that mosquitoes and mosquitoes borne diseases were the potential enemies of the public health and livestock affecting the social and economic statues countrywide with dengue, malaria, zika and othersdue to climate changes including various factors.

He said that prevention was an important way to control mosquito borne-disease and we could achieve this task through vector control, personal protection measures.

He urged the people to keep home, environment and surrounding clean, remove stagnant water and containers, avoid accumulation of ground water, and ensure proper dispose of the plastic bags.

He said that tangible steps were being taken on the part of varsity scientists in plant protection, identification and control of vector bone diseases, vaccinology and pesticide residue impact etc.

Dean Faculty of Veterinary Sciences Dr Zafar Iqbal Qureshi called maintaining cleanness at public places, don't throw the shopping bag on roads etc to emerge a developed nation.

He...