Make your own Ovi Trap to fight Dengue Carrying Mosquitoes

Make your own Ovi Trap at Home

What do we need?

• 1 piece of a 2 liter soda bottle
• 1 piece of a black paper
• Tape/or glue
• Scissor/knife for cutting
• 200 ml Hot Water
• 50 grams brown sugar
• Yeast

Procedure:

1. Cut the top of the bottle as shown (Don't throw the upper part of the bottle you need that later on)

2. Put 200 ml hot water in the bottle, add 50 grams brown sugar stir and let it cool down.

3. After the water cooled down, put the mixture of water and sugar in the bottle then add some yeast. ( yeast ferments and creates carbon dioxide that attracts mosquitoes)

 4. put the top part of the bottle upside down

5. Wrap black paper around the bottle

6. Place  the trap is at some dark corner

7. Done!


Important Reminder! : 

Check your Ovi Trap from time to time to monitor if it still working or the solution is still enough and attracts mosquitoes. If there's noticeable amount of dead mosquitoes, try to clean the trap by pouring hot water and disposing the content properly. Replace the solution if necessary.

Home Remedy for Dengue

Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a type of syndrome that caused by viruses transmitted from mosquitoes. Dengue is prevalent in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world. Dengue is also called Thai, Philippine or Southeast Asian hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome. Outbreaks of Dengue have occurred in the Caribbean, U.S. Virgin Islands, Cuba, and Central America. Some reported cases are contracted during travels imported by tourists returning from areas with known dengue outbreaks, like Tahiti, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, West Indies, India, and the Middle East.

Causes

It is acquired if bitten by striped Aedes aegypti mosquito that has previously bitten an infected person. With just one bite of the Aedes mosquitos can inflict the disease.

The virus is not contagious and mode of transfer frompersontoperson is thru person-to-mosquito-to-another-person cycle.

Symptoms

* Cough

* Nausea

* Vomiting

* Headache

* Sore throat

* Abdominal pain

* Continuous fever

Shock usually occurs two up to six days after the start of symptoms with sudden collapse, cool, clammy extremities, weak pulse, and blueness around the mouth.

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