An anti-dengue seminar was held
at Govt Postgraduat College. Prof Waqar Hussain delivered a speech drawing an
attention to eradicate mosquito by adopting selective, targeted and natural
method. He said there are about 100 trillion mosquitoes of 3500 species in the
world. Mosquito infect 700 million people annually with fatality to the tune of
3 million per year. In order to control mosquito-born disease like Dengue,
malaria, filaria, etc. Mosquito population must be wiped off but that is not
feasible practically. The most powerful insecticide are only 10% effective,
mosquito repellents have limited efficacy The pragmatic and prudent approach is
to differentiate between friendly and foe mosquitoes. There are three major
species culex, anopheles and aedes. Culex mosquitoe are above 90% that are
harmless for human. Culex mosquito are mostly brown or grey with stout body,
unspotted wings and body and its sitting posture is parallel to the surface.
Anopheles (which cause malaria) have palps which are as long as proboscis and
have black and white scales on the wings.Anopheles can easily be identified by
their typical sitting posture, abdomen sticking up in the air, making an angle
of 45 degree with the surface.
Aedes, which cause dengue, are typical small and have black and white stripes
marking on their bodies and legs. Aedes have a white "lyre" on their thorax with
two yellow chords in the centre. Aedes rest with abdomen parallel to surface and
head pointing downward. Aedes form concourse never exceeding six in number. By
this differentiation, it becomes easy to obliterate fewer mosquito successfully.
Furthermore, only female anopheles and aedes bite human for protein and iron and
spread diseases. So, only female mosquitoes are dangerous. Female mosquito are
slightly larger, have long probosics, less bushier antenna, and utter fainter
whinny buzz of 400 Hertz.While male mosquitoes are smaller, have short probosics
and long pulps appearing in shape of Greek letter psi, bushier antenna and make
buzz of higher tone of 600 Hertz.
By identifying female mosquito, number of enemy mosquito reduces to much less
that 1%, making it easy to kill them.
The natural and easy way to kill mosquitoes is the use the slap or clap. It is
aged long, effective, and innate way of killing mosquito, bestowed by Allah the
Almighty. Whenever mosquito sits on any part of body, human slaps that portion
unconsciously even during sleep, killing her in most of cases. So, we should
follow nature's impregnated innate reaction of slapping to kill mosquito. By
selection of pernicious mosquito and then using hands , We can eradicate malaria
and dengue within days. If every person kill 10 mosquitoes per day, 18 million
people will kill about 2 billion mosquitoes per day. So, thappar mar tay Machar
mar.(kill mosquito with slaps.)