Cuba
Two Cuban epidemiologists were in Sri Lanka in mid-August to lend a helping hand to the Health Ministry there in its ongoing tug-o-war with a Dengue outbreak, which had claimed 232 lives.
The Cuban experts first toured the country to assess the situation and presented the Sri Lanka Public Health Director, Palitha Maheepala, with a detailed report of how to tackle the Dengue outbreak using the bacteria, BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis), that the Cubans have been researching as part of their own bio-insecticide programme. BTI bacteria kill the larvae in Aedes aegypti infested waters.
Colombo has pledged to study the Cuban report before implementing its findings.
Source: prokerala.com
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