Systematic surveillance tools to reduce rodent pests in disadvantaged urban areas can empower communities and improve public health.

ABSTRACT: Rodents are notorious pests, known for transmitting major public health diseases and causing agricultural and economic losses. The lack of site-specific and national standardised rodent surveillance in several disadvantaged communities has rendered interventions targeted towards rodent control as often ineffective. Here, by using the example from a pilot case-study in the Bahamas, we present a unique experience wherein, through multidisciplinary and community engagement, we simultaneously developed a standardised national surveillance protocol, and performed two parallel but integrated activities: (1) eight days of theoretical and practical training of selected participants; and (2) a three-month post-training pilot rodent surveillance in the urban community of Over-the-Hill, Nassau, The B

SUBMITTER: Awoniyi AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10894258 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature