HAVANA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Experts from 29 countries gathered in Cuba on Tuesday to attend the third International Symposium for Fighting Vectors, a Pan-American conference that analyzes the control of disease-carrying insects.
Specialists from Cuba's National Hygiene and Epidemiology Agency, and the National Workers Health Institute will give details of Cuba's progress in fighting these disease carriers.
The meeting was designed to fight Aedes Aegypti and other malaria- and dengue-fever carrying mosquitoes. The two diseases strike more than one million people each year.
The meeting, which is being held in the city of Varadero, 134 km east of Havana, is being attended by the Cuban public health minister, representatives of the Pedro Kouri Institute and the Pan-American Health Organization.
The meeting includes exhibitions, debates and conferences, the president of the organizing committee, Juan Ramon Vazquez said. Enditem
