Summer rains “creating ideal conditions for mosquitoes”
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Summer rains “creating ideal conditions for mosquitoes”
Unusual summer rainfall and occasional hailstorms in Cyprus have created favourable breeding conditions for mosquitoes, microbiologist Dr Petros Karayiannis said on Tuesday, warning that climate change could make such conditions increasingly common. Karayiannis told the Cyprus News Agency that rainfall in August had left standing water in riverbeds, pools and other areas, providing ideal conditions […]
The rains in August and in some cases the hail are an unusual phenomenon and favor the development of mosquitoes because there are stagnant waters and rivers that are flowing down, which are an ideal environment for reproduction, microbiologist Dr. Petros Karagiannis told CNA. He explains that due to climate change, the phenomena will be increasingly frequent and intense. "It now rains quite a lot in the summer. Rivers flow down and therefore it…
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