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The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is re­mind­ing its mem­ber states of the im­por­tance of the In­te­grat­ed Vec­tor Man­age­ment ap­proach in ad­dress­ing the resur­gence of the Chikun­gun­ya Virus and oth­er ar­bovi­ral dis­eases such as Dengue and Zi­ka.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued to­day, the agency not­ed that the Chikun­gun­ya Virus spreads through the bite of an in­fect­ed Aedes ae­gyp­ti mos­qui­to. It de­scribed source re­duc­tion as the cor­ner­stone of pre­ven­tion and con­trol against these mos­qui­toes, but said an In­te­grat­ed Vec­tor Man­age­ment ap­proach re­mains nec­es­sary—es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing out­breaks when au­thor­i­ties utilise chem­i­cal agents such as spray­ing and fog­ging to tar­get adult mos­qui­toes and de­crease the like­li­hood of dis­ease trans­mis­sion.

CARPHA said a core prin­ci­ple of In­te­grat­ed Vec­tor Man­age­ment is In­sec­ti­cide Re­sis­tance Test­ing stud­ies. Fol­low­ing the ac­qui­si­tion and com­mis­sion­ing of CARPHA’s new Mo­bile In­sec­tary Fa­cil­i­ty in Oc­to­ber 2025, the agency re­ports it can now pro­vide In­sec­ti­cide Re­sis­tance Test­ing, in­clud­ing mol­e­c­u­lar test­ing, to mem­ber states.