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<\/div>Aerial view of the abandoned quarry located in Kusumek village, Bureti constituency. <\/strong>[Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n An\u00a0abandoned\u00a0quarry\u00a0in Kusumek village in Bureti Constituency has become a breeding ground for mosquitos, hampering the war against malaria.\n<\/p>\n The\u00a0quarry, now a breeding ground for mosquitoes\u00a0was used by a local road construction company to excavate ballast and murram it used in the construction of the Sotik-Kericho highway\u00a0between 1992 -1996. <\/p>\n The county\u2019s Malaria Programme Coordinator Richard Siele said they suspect that stagnant water in the 150ft deep\u00a0quarry\u00a0located on a four-acre piece of land was the breeding ground of the mosquitoes.\n<\/p>\n In the past two weeks, over 166 Kusumek residents tested positive for malaria. Over 30 of the patients\u00a0were admitted to Litein Mission Hospital.<\/p>\n Loss of appetite<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n Joshua Onyango, a paediatrician at the health facility, said most of the patients admitted to the hospital complained of fever, loss of appetite, vomiting, and general body weakness.\n<\/p>\n Mr Siele said the majority of the residents who tested positive for malaria, were from 30 households that don\u2019t have long-lasting insecticide-treated nets. <\/p>\n \u201cWe have nonetheless distributed over 200 pieces of insecticide-treated nets to the households,\u201d Siele said.\n<\/p>\n Litein Mission Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Elijah Kerich said the current high temperatures in the county were favourable for mosquito breeding.\n<\/p>\n \u201cResidents are therefore advised to sleep under mosquito nets, trim the grass around their houses and drain stagnant water which could be breeding ground for mosquitoes,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n Malaria remains a primary cause of childhood illness and death in Africa. More than 260,000 children under the age of five die from malaria annually.\n<\/p>\n Tracking and monitoring motor vehicles is not new to Kenyans. Competition to install affordable tracking devices is fierce but essential for fleet managers who receive reports online and track vehicles from the comfort of their desk.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aerial view of the abandoned quarry located in Kusumek village, Bureti constituency. [Courtesy] An\u00a0abandoned\u00a0quarry\u00a0in Kusumek village in Bureti Constituency has become a breeding ground for mosquitos, hampering the war against malaria. The\u00a0quarry, now a breeding ground for mosquitoes\u00a0was used by a local road construction company to excavate ballast and murram it used in the construction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nMonitor water pumps remotely via your phone <\/b>
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