Entomology and Ecology Team, Dengue Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Vector Control Unit of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Science Trust, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 Jun;100(6):1413-1420. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0015.
Puerto Rico was severely impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. The island has been endemic for dengue viruses (DENV) and recently suffered epidemics of chikungunya (CHIKV 2014) and Zika (ZIKV 2016) viruses. Although severe storms tend to increase the number of vector and nuisance mosquitoes, we do not know how they influence populations and arboviral transmission. We compared the abundance of female in autocidal gravid ovitraps (AGO traps), container habitats, and presence of RNA of DENV, CHIKV, and ZIKV in this vector before and after the hurricanes in Caguas city and in four communities in southern Puerto Rico. Two of these communities were under vector control using mass AGO trapping and the other two nearby communities were not. We also investigated mosquito species composition and relative abundance (females/trap) using Biogents traps (BG-2 traps) in 59 sites in metropolitan San Juan city after the hurricanes. Mosquitoes sharply increased 5 weeks after Hurricane Maria. Ensuing abundance of was higher in Caguas and in one of the southern communities without vector control. did not significantly change in the two areas with vector control. The most abundant mosquitoes among the 26 species identified in San Juan were () spp., , , and . No arboviruses were detected in following the hurricanes, in contrast with observations from the previous year, so that the potential for -borne arboviral outbreaks following the storms in 2017 was low.
波多黎各在 2017 年 9 月遭受了飓风“艾尔玛”和“玛丽亚”的严重影响。该岛一直存在登革热病毒(DENV),并且最近还爆发了基孔肯雅热(CHIKV 2014)和寨卡病毒(ZIKV 2016)疫情。尽管剧烈的风暴往往会增加病媒蚊和滋扰蚊的数量,但我们不知道它们如何影响蚊群和虫媒病毒的传播。我们比较了卡瓜斯市和波多黎各南部四个社区在飓风前后,自动诱杀性带卵雌蚊诱捕器(AGO 诱捕器)、容器栖息地中的雌蚊数量,以及 DENV、CHIKV 和 ZIKV 的 RNA 存在情况。其中两个社区正在使用大规模 AGO 诱捕进行病媒控制,而另外两个附近社区则没有。我们还在飓风后使用 Biogents 诱捕器(BG-2 诱捕器)在圣胡安大都市区的 59 个地点调查了蚊种组成和相对丰度(雌蚊/诱捕器)。玛丽亚飓风后,蚊子数量急剧增加。在卡瓜斯市和没有病媒控制的南部社区之一中,随后 的数量更高。在进行病媒控制的两个地区, 的数量没有显著变化。在圣胡安确定的 26 种蚊子中,最丰富的蚊子是 () spp.、、、和 。与前一年的观察结果相反,飓风后未在 中检测到虫媒病毒,因此 2017 年风暴后虫媒病毒爆发的可能性较低。