2023-08-29 03:01:15
Faced with the invasion of tiger mosquitoes which is raging this summer in the Hauts-de-Seine, Nadège Azzaz, the mayor (PS) of Châtillon, wants to “move the lines” up to the state level. The elected official wrote this Monday to the director of the regional health agency (ARS) to ask her for “a massive prevention campaign” against these insects, both for local communities and individuals.
Requested on numerous occasions by residents in recent weeks, the elected official is concerned “very seriously about the health consequences that such a density of the presence of these insects can have on the population”. The mayor of Châtillon goes even further and asks the ARS to consider mosquito control campaigns carried out a priori, even in the proven absence of epidemic risk. “Could a campaign be programmed at city level? “Asks Nadège Azzaz in her missive.
“We can no longer act in reaction every year”
Relations between the town hall of Châtillon and the health authority are however far from being stormy. The city trained its agents in contact with green spaces in the risks associated with the tiger mosquito in 2022, through the intermediary of the ARS. “There are good practices on which the ARS supports us but that is not enough, regrets Nadège Azzaz. We need an operation on the merits, a real prevention campaign carried out at State level, so that the municipalities no longer take responsibility for prevention alone. We cannot react every year. »
For the chosen one, the proliferation of the tiger mosquito is a direct consequence of global warming and is set to reproduce every year. “We have to change the uses, so that we can react. It is not a fatality not to be able to go out after 6 p.m. for fear of being bitten”, justifies Nadège Azzaz.
Contacted, the regional health agency refers the communities to their responsibility by recalling “that it is responsible for mosquito control operations around places frequented by human cases of diseases” transmitted by insects, but that “local communities have a major role in the fight against vector mosquitoes, whether by raising public awareness or implementing action to eliminate breeding grounds for mosquitoes”.
The ARS specifies that “the collective prevention of the establishment of the tiger mosquito” is mainly based on actions relating to town planning and land use planning, the competence of local authorities. On its website, ARS Île-de-France also details its role in vector control against the tiger mosquito and the best practices to adopt to spot it, protect yourself from bites and its proliferation.
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