Topic: Controlling Biting-Insect Populations
Country: Spain
Delegate Name: Nick Smith
School: Vicksburg High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Spain position papers GLIMUN 2015 committees
Spain was recently faced with Chikungunya virus, a disease spread by mosquitoes. The entire globe is being faced with biting insects. Through the past years and still now, the World health Organization and many other organizations with in the United Nations have tried to control biting insect populations. The organizations also try to teach about these insects, and ways to protect ourselves against them. Insects are often called vectors. A vector is a living being that can transmit disease from bug to human or animal to human. The most know vector is the mosquito. Tick, fleas are other examples of vectors. The diseases they can spread are malaria, the plague, chikungunya and that’s only a few.
Some have brought up the idea of killing of the species that carry these diseases. We can’t kill them off. That would create a new problem. We need to either teach about things we can do to protect ourselves from these vectors, or limit the species.
Over 1 million deaths are reported because of these diseases. Not all of the diseases spread by vectors are deadly. Malaria causes over 600,000 deaths alone. Diseases like these and more are preventable when taught about. Bug bed nets are a good tool to have in a warmer tropical climate or in under developed countries.
As the United Nations it’s our jobs to decide how to face the biting insects population. we have organizations with in the U.N. that can help monitor, and lower the populations of these insects. We have organizations that can also teach about these issues. We have to get these populations under control.
