HOW TO REDUCE THE RISK OF DENGUE IN YOUR HOME 

“All residents, travelers and business owners should be responsible for ensuring they do not encourage the breeding of dengue mosquitoes in their homes/rooms or business’s”

STOP THE MOSQUITO BREEDING AND YOU CAN STOP THE DISEASE 

AVOID BEING BITTEN

Everyone should take immediate action to prevent mosquito bites during the day, mosquito’s are at their most active early morning and late afternoon (dusk time) or just after a rain shower. You all can do this by:-

• Using personal insect repellents
• For your home, spray surfaces with a “cockroach” surface spray indoors, especially in dark places like inside cupboards, wardrobes, under beds and under tables where dengue mosquitoes like to rest
• Buy plug in zappers for your house indoors
• Spray “flying” insect spray into the air (be careful around your kids and animals you might want to take them out into the yard/garden before completely spraying the inside of your house for a few hours)

GET RID OF DENGUE MOSQUITO BREEDING SITES

Dengue mosquitoes breed in containers that simply hold water.  The dengue mosquito does not breed in rivers, swamps, an open drain, creeks or mangrove swamps.  The dengue mosquito does not like to travel very far from its home, so the best form of control is to get rid of the dengue mosquito breeding sites that you might have around your house.  Dengue mosquitoes breed in containers that hold water such as:-

• buckets
• tyres (discarded with no rims)
• tarpaulins and black plastic (garbage bags left lying around outside)
• pot plant bases
• vases
• boats
• tin cans and plastic containers/watering cans
• roof guttering
• rainwater tanks that have broken screens
• birdbaths
• kids paddling pools
• kids toys left outside that may collect water
• fallen palm fronds
• coconut shells

Residents living here should regularly check in and around their homes once a week and:-

*throw out old containers that are not needed

* store your containers in a dry place

*tip out containers that hold water