A press conference on the mosquito control actions implemented throughout Thessaly was granted at noon Tuesday 30/07 at the Administration Building of the Region of Thessaly, by the Regional Governor, Mr. Dimitris Kouretas, and the Vice-Regional Head of Public Health, Mr. Vangelis Apostolou. The interview was attended by the President of Ecodevelopment Spiros Mourelatos.
The Regional Governor stressed the exemplary cooperation with Ecodevelopment, underlining that: “We have worked methodically and the situation is good, however we will have to wait for the end of the summer to have a full picture”.
Spiros Mourelatos then detailed the methodology and data collection for drawing useful conclusions following mosquito control projects. “At least ten villages around lake Karla have been sprayed with the fogging method, and in conclusion it is found that we have low nuisance, there is no malaria issue and the West Nile virus case are expected to be at the same levels as last year,” he said. Finally, he went on to describe actions in the peri-urban and urban systems and preventive actions in villages where there is evidence of pathogen virus circulation.
See in the following short excerpts of LarissaPress the intervention of Mr. Mourelatos, as well as statements of the Regional Governor Mr. Dimitris Kouretas: