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National Pest Management Association Prepares to Launch Crucial Pest Control Initiative in Haitian Hospitals

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 6th, 2010

A delegation from the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) has returned from a fact-finding mission in Haiti where the group surveyed pest conditions in hospitals in Port-au-Prince resulting from the January 2010 earthquake. The conditions within these facilities are deplorable as medical facilities are overrun with fly, cockroach, mosquito and rodent infestations - all of which can transmit serious diseases, such as E-Coli and Salmonella from flies and cockroaches, malaria and dengue fever from mosquitoes or cause respiratory distress due to the presence of rodent droppings.

"The pest issues facing Haiti are grave, especially in hospitals," said Rob Lederer,...

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