These included general health care, the provision of an extensive health infrastructure, and a major program to eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes from the area.
The forest area is also plagued by disease-carrying mosquitoes and blackflies that keep settlers away.
The most effective means of prevention are protection against contact with the disease-carrying mosquitoes and mosquito control.
The Tiber basin, with its marshes of stagnant water in those times, would have easily supported the disease-carrying mosquitoes.
Exemptions would allow pesticide applications in circumstances involving public health like ground or aerial spraying to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes.
There it sprays an 18-mile-long open sewage ditch that would otherwise be an ideal breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes.
The only way to prevent Dengue virus transmission is to avoid being bitten by the disease-carrying mosquitoes.
Furthermore, pigs create wallows, which are important breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes.
Many disease-carrying mosquitoes use carbon dioxide as a cue for finding hosts.
Residents said they were frightened by both the disease-carrying mosquitoes and the pesticides sprayed across the neighborhood.