[Jeongeup=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Jae-gil] Jeonbuk Jeongeup City announced on the 3rd that it will begin intensive hygiene pest control this month to prevent infectious diseases during the summer season and create a pleasant environment.
The city is responding quickly as pest activity has increased along riversides and near residential areas due to the recent rise in temperature.
Previously, since March, the city conducted fogging disinfection of sewage drains, larval control, and spraying along the Jeongeup riverside. It plans to form five mobile disinfection teams to carry out eco-friendly mist disinfection by vehicle at night in vulnerable areas and densely populated regions during the summer.
The intensive summer pest control will be carried out for about five months from this month until October.
In particular, to reduce air pollution caused by worsening fine dust, eco-friendly mist disinfection using dispersants will be conducted in densely populated areas (apartment complexes with more than 300 households, commercial districts, etc.).
Eco-friendly mist disinfection has the advantage of causing less air pollution by diluting dispersants with water, and it produces less visual effect compared to fogging disinfection, which sometimes leads residents to mistakenly believe that no disinfection is being performed.
Accordingly, the public health center plans to attach promotional messages to the night mist disinfection vehicles to inform residents that disinfection is in progress.
A city official said, “We will do our best to prevent mosquito-borne infectious diseases such as Japanese encephalitis through intensive summer pest control,” and urged residents to remove stagnant water in puddles and clogged drains around their homes that can serve as mosquito breeding sites and to properly dispose of household waste.
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