The NAVRC-trained, skilled-level, Disease Vector Surveillance Officers (DVSO) ; have embarked on active vector surveillance, in sentinel sites locations in Benue state; even as the Centre begins active vector surveillance for the year. This is in a bid to preempt outbreaks of infectious diseases such as-Yellow fever and other diseases of public health importance in the state.
Disease Vector Surveillance Officers setting ovitraps for the study in Kwande LGA, Benue state.
0vitrap set for the study
Sampling of breeding habitats typical of Aedes mosquito in Agaraga, Kwande LGA, Benue State.
Prior to the commencement of their vector surveillance activities in the LGA, the NAVRC-Team paid Advocacy visit to the Director Public Health, Oju LGA, Ube Emmanuel, to update him on the vector surveillance and activities being carried out in some communities in the LGA.
Information obtained from this study, will help determine vector composition and abundance in the state and help forestall outbreak of infectious vector-borne diseases in the state.