INFESTATIONS OF DISEASE VECTORS ANIMALS IN UNDERGROUNDS SPACES BUILT FOR BASIC SANITATION

• Autor(a) principal: Wermeligner, Eduardo Dias
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Aldo Pacheco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hygeia (Uberlândia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/hygeia/article/view/68588
• topic: Saneamento; Vetores de doenças; Cobertura do Serviço de Esgoto; Drenagem sanitária; Sanitation; Disease Vectors; Sewerage Coverage; Drainage; Sanitary

At the interface of geography with public health in the urban environment there seems to be no controversy about the importance of sanitation. This article addresses the importance of the proliferation of animal vectors in underground spaces built to meet basic sanitation, in particular sewer and storm drainage galleries. The methodology used was to analyze reports of these proliferations in the literature as well as the diseases linked by these vectors. Although these spaces are essential and necessary especially in large urban centers, embarrassingly they offer excellent breeding conditions for vector animals such as cockroaches, brown rats, mosquitoes and flies causing permanent threats to public health by linking different diseases and maintaining epidemics. However, understandably there are few epidemiological studies qualifying the importance of infestations in these spaces for public health. These infestations must be understood as an adverse ecological effect and not sufficient to compromise the solid benefit ratio between basic sanitation and public health. But the unequivocal presence and participation of these animals in linking important diseases to public health must be considered in specific research and to seek constructive adjustments in these underground spaces to mitigate these adverse effects.