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Public Health Importance of Insect Vectors in Open Dumps at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/EASJPID.2020.v02i01.001

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Open dumps are becoming an acceptable norm in Nigeria where everything not usable is dumped irrespective of its consequence to humans and the environment. These dumps have become breeding sites for both vertebrate and invertebrate vectors, especially the insects. Insect vectors of public health importance at selected open dumps at the University Park, the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State were collected with pan traps. Six insect orders (Coleoptera, Dictyoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Orthoptera), twenty-seven families and forty-five species were collected. The orders: Dictyoptera, (Blatta orientalis, Blattella spp.) and Diptera, consisting of mosquitoes (Culex spp.) and flies (Musca domestica, Morellia nilotica) are vectors of public health concern. Other insects with the potential of mechanical vectoring of pathogens include fruit flies (Leucophenga spp. and Drosophila spp). Insect species collected were moderately diverse and dominant in the dumps but were not evenly distributed. Environmental implications of open dumps are highlighted while the health implications of the insect vectors found in the dumps are discussed.

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