WHO Strategy? PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(6): mosquito and of dengue [3]. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons—including insecticide

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• increase in the global prevalence and incidence of both diseases (1) is harsh condemnation of
• our current control strategies. The stark truth is that over the past 50 years no country any-
• Citation: Reiter P (2016) Control of Urban Zika late 1940s. The goal of the latter was complete eradication of the species from the entire west-
• Vectors: Should We Return to the Successful PAHO/ ern hemisphere and indeed, by 1962, eighteen countries had been declared totally free of the
• WHO Strategy? PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(6): mosquito and of dengue (3). Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons—including insecticide
• e0004769. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004769 resistance and failure to sustain efforts in regions where the campaign had been successful—
• urban areas throughout the tropics. In addition, in the past 30 years, Ae. albopictus has invaded
• Competing Interests: The author has declared that age vessels, abandoned kiddie play-pens and so-on (Fig 1).
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004769 June 1, 2016 1/4
• Fig 1. Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are forest species that breed in tree-holes, plant axils, fruit husks and other small natural containers.
• doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004769.g001
• Much of this growth was in the tropics; 80% of the populations of Latin America and the Carib-
• bean, for example, now live in urban areas (4) and in most of the region they share their habitat
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004769 June 1, 2016 2/4
• of about one meter with DDT (3). Residual treatments of this kind kill mosquitoes by contact.
• in the pipeline—transgenics with a dominant lethal gene (6), the release of strains infected with
• Wolbachia bacteria (7), and auto-dissemination of juvenile hormone mimics (8)—although all
• control (9), but vaccine development and approval takes time, generally a matter of years. The
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004769 June 1, 2016 3/4
• 1. Gubler DJ. The global emergence/resurgence of arboviral diseases as public health problems.
• Archives of Medical Research. 2002; 33: 330–342. PMID: 12234522
• Fever, 2nd Edition (Eds Gubler et al.). CAB International, 2014. pps 484–521.
• 3. Camargo S. History of Aedes aegypti eradication in the Americas. Bulletin of the World Health Organi-
• 4. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014). World Urbani-
• 5. Reiter P. Oviposition, dispersal, and survival in Aedes aegypti: implications for the efficacy of control
• strategies. Vector Borne Zoonotic Diseases. 2007; 7: 261–273. PMID: 17627447
• 6. Alphey L. Genetic Control of Mosquitoes. Annual Review of Entomology. 2014; 59: 205–224. doi: 10.
• 7. Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Walker T, O’ Neill S. Wolbachia and the biological control of mosquito-borne dis-
• ease. EMBO Rep. 2011; 12: 508–18 doi: 10.1038/embor.2011.84 PMID: 21546911
• transfer insecticides to Aedes aegypti larval habitats. PNAS USA. 2009; 106: 11530–11534. doi: 10.
• 1073/pnas.0901369106 PMID: 19561295
• 9. Gubler DJ. The partnership for dengue control—a new global alliance for the prevention and control of
• PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004769 June 1, 2016 4/4

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