Aedes breeding in USJ11 houses

Star: SUBANG JAYA: Aedes mosquitoes are breeding in houses in USJ11 here, which has been declared a dengue epidemic area.
Subang Jaya assemblyman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng said the local municipal council had cleared up mosquito breeding spots in the neighbourhood.
“In the absence of construction sites, that leaves only homes as breeding grounds, and checks by the council’s health department confirmed this,” said Lee who is also a Subang Jaya municipal councillor.
Lee said the council declared USJ11 an epidemic area 10 weeks ago when several dengue cases were confirmed there.
“The council declares an epidemic area if there is more than one case in two weeks,” he said, adding that there had been three to five confirmed cases each week over the last 10 weeks in USJ11.
The figures are alarming as USJ11 has only 2,005 houses.
Of the 227 confirmed dengue cases in USJ, 34 were recorded in USJ11, he added.
Lee, who joined the council in inspecting houses in the area yesterday, told newsmen that 125 fines had been issued so far to USJ11 occupants whose flowerpots, aquariums and garden ponds were found to contain mosquito larvae.
He called on residents to cooperate in the fight against this prolonged dengue problem by ensuring that their homes were not mosquito breeding grounds.