The Beijing Patriotic Health Campaign Committee recently issued an announcement that a comprehensive winter cockroach killing campaign will be conducted between December 1 to 3.
The cockroach killing campaign spread citywide is a routine job conducted by Beijing Patriotic Health Campaign Committee every year. The goal is to solve the cockroach problem which is bothering the mass public as well as to create a clean sanitary environment for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. According to the monitoring of Beijing Disease Control Center, residential buildings are where the cockroaches stay; therefore the focus area of this year’s cockroach killing campaign is residence with cockroaches, with the theme on “Keep Cockroaches Away From Your Healthy Family.”
Cockroaches spread many contagious diseases with the ability of taking more than 40 disease-causing bacteria, such as Shigella and E. coli, as well as various kinds of parasites eggs of roundworms, nematodes and pinworms; they also cause asthma and allergies. The cockroaches do consumption and excretion on the way. Therefore when those with bacteria crawl unto food or tableware may spread the contagious diseases, such as hepatitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, intestinal disease and gastritis to human beings as well as cause food poisoning.
Cockroaches have high propagation capability and are able to spread via doors, windows, wall cracks and pipes; therefore any family or company could not get a satisfactory result if trying to get rid of cockroaches by themselves alone. In winter, cockroaches concentrate in warmer places near ovens or heaters. Therefore, the experts advise that we should organize a comprehensive cockroach killing campaign at the beginning of the heating season to get a better result.
As to the feature of cockroaches easily adopting resistance to drugs, Beijing Patriot Health Campaign Committee has organized the experts to conduct a selection of current cockroach killing drugs and complete a comprehensive cockroach killing drug use program citywide. It is suggested that residents and corporate staff use a comprehensive way combining a set of cockroach killing drugs to kill them, i.e. to use baits, powder and sticky paper at the same time. The Beijing Patriot Health Campaign Committee provide two different prices for selection and establish distribution spots in communities and residential committees to ensure that the citizens and enterprises can purchase the drug with convenience.
To ensure the citizens acknowledge a correct way to kill cockroaches, the Beijing Patriot Health Campaign Committee specifically printed 350,000 copies of “Usage of cockroach killing drug set” and relevant promotion posters; they also invite experts to give lectures on media for the popularization of scientific knowledge. This campaign will also be publicized first time via SMS platform. The citizens could also dial 12320 public health phone line for consultation.
There are many A-level professional insecticidal institutes. These institutes have legal person qualification and also done record registration in Beijing Patriot Health Campaign Committee. Their staff has professional knowledge and technology with relevant license to ensure providing professional cockroach killing service for families and enterprises. For further information please log on to the official website of Beijing Patriot Health Campaign Committee: www.bjaw.org.cn.