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Children's perception of Chagas disease vectors in Yucatan, Mexico
Chagas disease is transmitted by hematophagous triatomine bugs, which can invade and sometimes adapt to houses. Vector control based on insecticide spraying and housing improvement is the main strategy used for Chagas disease prevention. Acceptance and participation in vector control is in turn greatly affected by how the disease and the bugs are perceived by communities. We have used children's drawings to explore their knowledge and perceptions of the bugs, to further engage communities in vector control activities. Children are very familiar with triatomine bugs, which they depict vividly, and this knowledge can be used to further improve Chagas disease awareness messages and community participation in disease control. See Yevstigneyeva et al.
Image Credit: Eric Dumonteil
Citation: (2014) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 8(10) October 2014. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(10): ev08.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v08.i10
Published: October 30, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Yevstigneyeva et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Chagas disease is transmitted by hematophagous triatomine bugs, which can invade and sometimes adapt to houses. Vector control based on insecticide spraying and housing improvement is the main strategy used for Chagas disease prevention. Acceptance and participation in vector control is in turn greatly affected by how the disease and the bugs are perceived by communities. We have used children's drawings to explore their knowledge and perceptions of the bugs, to further engage communities in vector control activities. Children are very familiar with triatomine bugs, which they depict vividly, and this knowledge can be used to further improve Chagas disease awareness messages and community participation in disease control. See Yevstigneyeva et al.
Image Credit: Eric Dumonteil