Tweet #1
Cockroaches belong to the most common type of pests that can be found in the urban setting, as well as in the suburban environment. The research carried out by Shahraki, Parhizkar, and Nejad (2013) indicates that five types of cockroaches are typical for most types of urban settings (the German cockroach (96.73%), the Turkestan cockroach (2.21%), the American cockroach (0.98%), the Brown-banded cockroach (0.07%), and the Oriental cockroach (0.01%) (Shahraki et al., 2013, p. 3)). The identified types of cockroaches were found in dormitories, the environment of residential houses, and hospitals (Shahraki et al., 2013, p. 3). Official locations, including hotels, showed the lowest variation rates in cockroach types.
Discussion
Cockroaches remain the most common urban pest problem; therefore, the tools for getting rid of the identified type of insects must be designed. Being ubiquitous insects, cockroaches pose a serious problem to the residents of the urban area. Often being the carriers of disease-causing bacteria, cockroaches must be viewed as an imminent health threat (Salvatore et al., 2015). Given the lack of difference in the patterns of infestation development (chi-square = 7.636, d.f = 4, and ???? = 0.106) (Shahraki et al., 2013, p. 3), the importance of the problem is high for all communities.
Tweet #2
There are several factors that affect the threat of having an infestation. However, in contrast to the common myth, the location of the premises should not be viewed as one of the characteristics that define the degree of risk significantly. Particularly, the study results indicated that the distribution of the insects between different floors was the same for the most part, with no specific differences between the levels of infestation on different floors shown (Shahraki et al., 2013, p. 3). Therefore, the factors such as elevation do not affect the development of the problem and should not be viewed as one of the risk factors.
Discussion
The idea that the threat of having a cockroach infestation is in direct proportion to the elevation of the room remains a common misconception. The lack of attention to the infestation problem due to a specific elevation of the room, which was observed among 4% of the research participants (Shahraki et al., 2013, p. 3), may lead to the aggravation of the issue and the further need to introduce complex measures for getting rid of the infestation. Thus, it is important to make sure that people should be aware of the ubiquitous nature of the problem.
Tweet #3
Only 81% of the areas monitored as infested by cockroaches were recognized by their owners as having an insect problem, according to the outcomes of Shahraki et al.’s (2013) study. Therefore, there is evidence that people tend to overlook the issue of infestation. At the earliest development of the issue, most people fail to notice the signs that deserve concern (Shahraki et al., 2013, p. 4). As a result, the problem grows increasingly large with every moment, finally leading to the point where the threat to the residents’ health becomes imminent. The inability to notice the problem and nip it in the bud leads to a steep rise in the threat of developing a health issue due to the infestation.
Discussion
Seeing that most people tend to notice the cockroach infestation problem only when it becomes huge, it is crucial to raise awareness on the subject matter among the people living in urban and suburban areas. Thus, the possibility of producing an adequate response to the problem appears.
The issue of cockroach infestation is not to be underrated. The insects pose a direct threat to people’s health since cockroaches often turn out to be the carriers of a range of diseases (Salvatore et al., 2015). Therefore, the epidemiological importance is high.
References
Salvatore, A. L., Castorina, R., Camacho, J., Morga, N., Lopez, J., Nishioka, M.,… Bradman, A. (2015). Home-based community health worker intervention to reduce pesticide exposures to farmworkers’ children: A randomized-controlled trial. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 25(6), 608-615. Web.
Shahraki, G. H., Parhizkar, S., & Nejad, A. R. S. (2013). Cockroach infestation and factors affecting the estimation of cockroach population in urban communities. International Journal of Zoology, 2013(649089), 1-6. Web.