When to Call for Emergency Pest Control: Signs You Can’t Ignore

Do you ever wonder if that one ant trail going to your pantry or the soft, scary scratching sounds coming from inside your walls at night are really there? You’re not the only one! It might be difficult to discern when to summon the soldiers (emergency pest control).

Don’t worry, though! Here are some signs that it’s time to call for help. If you have an army of rodents or a brave bug on a jungle adventure in your living space, you need to know when to call emergency pest control to keep your home safe from unwanted guests.

Droppings or Urine Stains

If you find droppings or urine spots in your home, it’s clear that bugs are there. You can also tell what kind of pest it is by looking at the size and shape of the droppings. Each s…

HEALTH-CUBA: War on Mosquitoes Continues During Global Summit

Dalia Acosta

HAVANA, Sep 12 2006 (IPS) – The start of the week-long 14th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) forced the Cuban government to suspend its spraying with military planes, but it has not cut short the intense offensive against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the potentially deadly dengue virus.
Although the government has kept mum on the spread of dengue fever in this Caribbean island nation, sources close to the Public Health Ministry told IPS that several thousand cases have been reported in Havana alone, where special hospital wards have been created to care for the sick.

The authorities say everything is under control, while emphasising the need to keep up the health and awareness-raising campaign. Let s prevent the proliferation of the m…

G8-AFRICA: Shortfall on Help in AIDS Fight ‘Devastating’

Kester Kenn Klomegah

MOSCOW, Jun 10 2007 (IPS) – Although the Group of Eight industrialised nations agreed at their summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, to allocate 60 billion dollars to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa, health activists say the treatment targets are much lower than originally pledged, which is devastating news , especially for the millions of people with HIV/AIDS.
In a joint declaration on growth and responsibility in Africa, the G8 Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States also invited other donors to join the initiative, proposed by the United States, which pledged 30 billion dollars of the total.

We will continue our efforts towards these goals (fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on a sustain…

JAPAN: Death from Overwork Persists Amid Economic Crunch

TOKYO, Oct 28 2009 (IPS) – One morning nine months ago, Kenji Hamada s colleagues were surprised to find him in their Tokyo office slumped over his desk. They thought he was sleeping, but when he did not wake up after two hours, they realised he was dead.
Tokyo's Takao Mikoromo Spiritual Temple, where hundreds paid respects last month to the workers who died from overwork. Credit: Japan's Labor, Health and Welfare Ministry

Tokyo’s Takao Mikoromo Spiritual Temple, where hundreds paid respects last month to…

Morphine Kills Pain but its Price Kills Patients

The Bulawayo Island Hospice has been operating since 1982 and is one of the few medical facilities catering to Zimbabwe’s poor. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS

BULAWAYO, Jan 11 2013 (IPS) – It took Gily Ncube’s daughters two weeks to sell enough chickens to raise the 18 dollars needed to buy the morphine tablets their mother takes every four hours.

In a country where unemployment is estimated at 70 percent, 18 dollars for a bottle of 60 tablets of 10 milligrammes (mg) each is a steep price to pay, equivalent to about 18 loaves of bread.

But the small, rural family had no choice morphine is the onl…