Tires on fields can become a major public health hazard.
ORANJESTAD - Through its Yellow Fever and Mosquito Control (GKMB)section, the Department of Public Health calls on all neighborhood centers, sports organizations, and other groups that have been accumulating soil on either public or private property in recent years to be mindful that this can pose a grave risk to the health of those who use the area as well as the neighborhood as a whole when it starts to rain.
We are in the rainy season, and the mosquito population will increase, bringing with it the danger of mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue. Soils in which water remains stagnant after rain are an ideal place for the dengue mosquito to lay its eggs and breed.
Recently, Yellow Fever and Mosquito Control (GKMB) staff moving in different neighborhoods around Aruba took note of more and more tires in large quantities on fields and other places where people frequent for recreation. DVG urges organizations, tire businesses, and the community to be aware of the danger that tires with standing water create and to help reduce this danger by disposing of them responsibly. If this is not possible, make holes in the tires, cover them, roll them regularly, fill them with sand, or spray them with insecticide.
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