3 Navotas barangays & DOST nuclear agency partner in dengue control project
Local leaders from Navotas City recently turned to nuclear technology as a tool in helping control dengue in their communities.
Barangay Captains Leonora Acosta of Tanza 1 (third from left) and Rochelle Vicencio of Tanza 2 (fourth from left), inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) represented by PNRI’s Deputy Director Dr. Vallerie Ann Samson (third from right) and Atomic Research Division Chief Dr. Lucille Abad (second from right) on June 29, 2023 to formalize their support and participation to the project “Development and Application of Sterile Insect Technique for the Control of Dengue Mosquito Aedes aegypti.”
Led by entomologist Glenda Obra (rightmost), Scientist 1 and head of PNRI’s Agriculture Research Section, the three-year project will entail surveillance and monitoring of dengue mosquitoes; conducting community surveys, consultations, and capacity-building activities; and carrying out of sterile male mosquito release trials using irradiation, a nuclear technology that can, among others, make male mosquitoes unable to bear offsprings.
Also included in the study is Brgy. Daang Hari led by Alvin Oliveros (not in picture). (Framelia V. Anonas | Nuclear Information and Documentation Section | DOST-PNRI)
