Routine anti flea & Anti Rodent measures

Regular Surveillance :

Plague surveillance unit is regularly doing surveillance activity in plague prone areas & in those district which reports high flea nuisance in the State.

Nature Of Surveillance Work

	Domestic rodents are collected by setting wonder traps in the houses.
	Wild rodents are collected by digging the burrows in the field.
	The samples of rodents organs, blood sera, organ smears and rodents fleas are collected and same are being sent to NICD Bangalore for serological and bacteriological investigation.

Control measures undertaken :

	On the basis of the finding of the plague surveillance unit, the following measures are adopted for control of fleas, rodents & suspected plague cases.
	The dusting of Malathion 5% is carried out in 32000 high risk population of Beed & Osmanabad district to control the fleas.
	The sufficient stock of essential medicines such as Tetracycline, Septran is made available at 21 plague prone districts.
	The Malathion 5% is also made available for dusting at 6 High Risk districts.
	Re orientation of Health Workers during monthly meetings & visits.
	Health Education
	Due to all above effective measures, not a single case of plague and rat-fall was noticed in the State since 1995.