Promoting health education and public awareness about dengue and its mosquito vector in Saudi Arabia

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Che Salmah Md Rawi¹  Abu Hassan Ahmad¹  Mesed Hatabbi²  Jazem A Mahyoub³  Salman A Al-Shami⁴  Al Thabiani Aziz⁴ 

[1] School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia;Ministry of Health, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia;Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 71491, Saudi Arabia

关键词: KSA;    Aedes aegypti;    Public awareness;    Health education;    Dengue;   

Others  :  1149394
DOI  :  10.1186/s13071-014-0487-5

 received in 2014-08-20, accepted in 2014-10-09,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Currently, dengue fever is considered as the main health problem in several parts (Mekkah, Jeddah, Jazan and Najran) of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) with dramatically increase in the number of cases reported every year. This is associated with obvious ineffectiveness in the recent control and management programs for the mosquito vector (Aedes aegypti). Here, we suggested promoting the health education and public awareness among Saudi people to improve the control of dengue mosquito vector. Several suggestions and recommendations were highlighted here to ensure effectiveness in the future control and management programs of dengue mosquito vector in KSA.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Aziz et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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