Operation Blessing Wages Low-Tech Battle to Fight the Zika Virus in Mexico Cindy Clayton - The Virginian-Pilot
go to original March 7, 2016

El Salvador's Sambo Fish and How They Can Stop Zika (Operation Blessing International)

Operation Blessing International is helping fight the Zika virus in Mexico with mosquito-eating fish.

The humanitarian group is breeding Gambusia in a pond in a fish-breeding area near Acapulco and already is giving fish away to families to use in their rain water collection barrels, an Operation Blessing news release says. Already, the fish have been busy eating mosquito larvae.

More than 60 local community health workers will receive the fish and training. The workers will then distribute the fish to families to be used in buckets, barrels, tubs and other containers where water is stored around their homes, the release says.

When its operation is up to full capacity, the organization expects to produce thousands of fish each week to be used to battle mosquitoes that transmit the virus.

The group says Mexican officials have also asked for the program to launch in the Yucatan area.

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Related: Mosquito-Eating Fish Being Used to Fight the Spread of Zika Virus in Latin America (Christian Today)

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