“This achievement represents the latest milestone in the country’s efforts to re-establish its discontinued food irradiation services,” said Raquel Scamilla Andreo Aledo, IAEA Programme Management Officer for Cuba.
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A pilot trial of a nuclear technique in a neighbourhood of the Cuban capital Havana reduced mosquito numbers by up to 90% last year. Early reports show that cases of mosquito-borne diseases were completely eliminated in the last two months of the trial.
A pilot trial of a nuclear technique in a neighbourhood of the Cuban capital Havana reduced mosquito numbers by up to 90% last year. Early reports show that cases of mosquito-borne diseases were completely eliminated in the last two months of the trial.
“In Cuba, controlling Aedes aegypti is a national priority,” said René Gato Armas, an entomologist and head of the SIT group at Cuba’s Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute.