Lice Infestation

Intestinal parasitic infestation.

In addition to several projects to extend or improve internal sewerage schemes in camps, environmental health services included sewage disposal, management of storm water runoff, provision of safe drinking water, collection and disposal of refuse and control of insect and rodent infestation.

(e) Fumigation, disinfection and rodent control of Base buildings ( 15,000)

Over 1.1 million Palestine refugees residing in the 59 official refugee camps benefited from environmental health services provided by UNRWA in cooperation with local municipalities, including sewage disposal, management of storm water run off, provision of safe drinking water, collection and disposal of refuse, and control of insect and rodent infestation.

Over 1.1 million Palestine refugees residing in 59 official camps in the five fields of operation benefited from environmental health services provided by UNRWA in cooperation with local municipalities, including sewage disposal, management of storm water run off, provision of safe drinking water, collection and disposal of refuse, and control of insect and rodent infestation.

The package includes submodels for plant growth, hydrology soils, animal production and grasshopper infestation.

Over the past 25 years, continuous mine infestation had created a catastrophic situation there.

Much health education was carried out during the ankylostomiasis campaign in 1916 to enlighten the public about the problems of hookworm infestation.

Private farming concerns utilize a combination of remote sensed data to watch for the beginning of crop infestation and take early remedial action.

A document on the mines information system and the factors determining the severity of mine infestation was published by ICRC in December 1997.

While this locust infestation was the worst in a decade, the problem is a recurrent one that calls for a more systematic, preventative approach.

Although repeated warnings were issued well in advance, donor support for dealing with the infestation picked up only after the destruction was well under way.

We have provided assistance to combat epidemic diseases and overcome the effects of natural disasters including floods, droughts and infestation by locusts and other pests.

Some administrative and programme changes have been introduced in order to strengthen environment health activities, with emphasis on water quality, surveillance, sanitation, solid waste management and rodent control.

The strategy adopted concentrated on fighting the pest, and insufficient attention was given to mitigating the impact of the infestation on local livelihoods and the environment.

2.22 Another objective of the subprogramme will be to ensure an effective, proactive and coordinated United Nations response throughout the Organization s humanitarian, social and economic assistance activities to mine infestation.

51. The administering Power added that the provisions of sanitary facilities for indigents, a rodent control programme and the extension of refuse collection services have all contributed to the improvement of sanitary conditions.

In addition, the floods, hurricanes, snowstorms, locust infestation and droughts that have occurred across the globe have caused widespread devastation and a loss of livelihood for hundreds of millions of people.

Additional requirements of 5,900 were due to higher expenditures incurred for maintenance services such as general maintenance, cleaning services, garbage collection, rodent extermination, cleaning of septic systems and the supply of non potable water.

FAO was then forced to ask for 100 million to contain swarms of epidemic proportions compared to the 9 million that were required to deal with the infestation in its early stages.

Owing to the provision of the general maintenance, cleaning, garbage collection and rodent extermination services under contractual services arrangements, minimal expenditures were recorded under the above heading ( 1,400), resulting in the unutilized balance of 34,600.

So what happens is that in a way you have a much bigger lung, but it branches and branches down to distances about the same for a whale, for a man and for a little rodent.

55. The administering Power adds that the Public Health Law of 1981 provides basic coverage in the areas of water quality, nuisance abatement, offensive trades, prevention or suppression of disease, solid waste management and rodent control.

24. To assist in the advance planning of relief efforts, vegetation monitoring information was used to assess regional food and water supplies and to mitigate the risks of drought, pest infestation and environmental contamination.

And we've done, in the past four years, a proof of concept on a small part of the rodent brain, and with this proof of concept we are now scaling the project up to reach the human brain.

There, earlier availability of funding would have enabled the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to spray locust larvae in the early stages of infestation and thereby prevent the spread of the problem.

Provision is made in the amount of 564,600 for the cost of services such as laundry, barber tailoring shoe repair, grounds maintenance, rodent and pest control, janitorial custodial services, garbage and refuse collection, and maintenance of laundry and kitchen.

Provision under this heading is based on the estimated monthly cost of 24,200 and covers catering services, garbage collection and removal, liquid waste disposal, cleaning of premises, rodent and pest control, anti termite treatment, mosquito eradication and grounds maintenance.

(d) Bolivia. In collaboration with UNDP, WFP and the Ministry of Health, a project in support of the Southern Cone initiative for the elimination of triatoma infestation from dwellings and control of transfusional disease was completed in June 1997

These additional charges include costs for such items as utilities, cleaning of office accommodation and various maintenance contracts (supplementary air conditioners for the data centre and conference rooms, fire equipment for the data centre and office accommodation, rodent control and electric lamp replacement etc.).

These additional charges include costs for such items as utilities, cleaning of office accommodation and various maintenance contracts (supplementary air conditioners for the data centre and conference rooms, fire equipment for the data centre and office accommodation, rodent control and electric lamp replacement, etc.).

In the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Southern Africa, natural hazards including drought, erratic rains, locust infestation and floods coupled with chronic problems such as poverty, conflict, poor governance and HIV AIDS, affected millions of people, including farmers, pastoral and agropastoral groups.

Owing to difficult socio economic conditions in refugee camps, where overcrowding was commonplace, sanitary facilities often insufficient, and rates of intestinal infestation high, UNRWA implemented a de worming campaign in April 1998 based on the WHO single dose strategy, with support from UNICEF.

According to United Nations agencies on the ground, this situation is the result of a combination of factors, including drought, infestation, land pressure and reduced amounts of arable land for households, reduced land productivity and malnutrition, resulting from cycles of common and chronic diseases, including malaria and HIV AIDS.

Instead, most now apply insecticides only when infestation exceeds some threshold level, with the goal of producing a sustainable and satisfactory crop. Under the banner of integrated pest management, hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate them

The biochemist Bruce Ames and his colleagues have found that 99.99 (by weight) of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves. Only 52 natural pesticides have been tested in high dose animal cancer tests, and about half (27) are rodent carcinogens these 27 are shown to be present in many common foods.

28. General environmental health work carried out throughout 1996 included the inspection of dwellings, building works, catering establishments, bakeries, grocery shops, hairdressers and barber shops, meat and food inspection, disinfestation and disinfection, investigation of infectious diseases, sampling of foods and water supplies, pest and rodent control and the monitoring of noise complaints, atmospheric pollution and the quality of drinking and bathing water.

22. In addition to cyclones and the resulting floods, Madagascar is vulnerable to natural hazards, including pest infestation, bush fires, seismic activity, landslides and recurrent drought. While the response of the international community to relief needs in the aftermath of disaster events has been consistently good, assistance with vital rehabilitation and durable reconstruction efforts has not been of the desired level.