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1 "From Nuisance Mosquito Control to Vector Control" International Symposium on risks of Chikungunya transmitted by Aedes albopictus (Tiger Mosquito) and other potential vectors in Europe “From citizens’ point of view : quality of the information about the risk of disease and the population right to know and to be informed” 27 February, 2008 - ALESSANDRIA (Italy)

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"From Nuisance Mosquito Control to Vector Control"

International Symposium on risks of Chikungunya

transmitted by Aedes albopictus(Tiger Mosquito) and other potential vectors in Europe

“From citizens’ point of view : quality of the information about the risk of disease and the

population right to know and to be informed” 

27 February, 2008 - ALESSANDRIA (Italy)

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Quality of the information and the right of the population to know and to be informed

Enzo GINO’s Intervention on the theme

Enzo GINO : of the association Z.A.R. (Mosquitos, Environment, Ricefields) and manager of the website www.zanzare-risaie.info

www.zanzare-risaie.info

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art. 19 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations dated December 10 th 1948 that states:

Every individual has the right to the freedom of opinion and expression, included the right not to be molested

for his/her own opinion and that

to look for, to receive and to spread information

and ideas through every means

and without respect to frontiers

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The Constitutional Court, with sentence n. 420/1994, even if from another perspective (pluralism of information) confirmed the essential principle of the

right of the citizen to information.

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But there is another principle enacted by the Italian Constitution which is systematically disregarded by the institutions, article 118 last paragraph:

“State, Regions, metropolitan City, Provinces and Communes favour the

autonomous initiative of the citizens, as individuals and as associates,

for the carrying out of activity of general interest, on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity ”

the priciple of subsidiarity also welcomed by the UE establishes the competence to intervene beginning from the lowest possible institutional level

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Some institutions of category denied the

existence of a causal connection

between the presence of

mosquitos and the presence in the Po valley of the widest

artificial submersions of water of Europe

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It seems to us that for some public administration the main problem is not to confront, to provide suitable and complete

information, to answer the observations of the citizens, but rather to avoid protests as expressly declared on the newspapers by

some public administrators that consider a success the campaign of last year because “there have not been polemic”

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We take the opportunity from this authoritative symposium to ask expressly that the verifications and the checking on the results are submitted to third subjects, extraneous to the people carrying out the

treatments.

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“Chikungunya” , UN’EPIDEMIA TROPICALE CHE LA STAMPA ITALIANA CI HA NASCOSTO A

FERRAGOSTO

http://fainotizia.radioradicale.it/node/5003157

In September last year I got to know through a Press release of the French Public Health Ministry , (I underline

press release and French authority), that the Italian authorities had reported to the UE, as it is forced

to do, cases of Chikungunya in Emilia

Romagna.

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I inserted it in the internet and sent a press release in

which I requested to the public sanitary Italian authorities to furnish

information on the risks of diffusion of these and other illnesses that had as vector of transmission mosquitos.

No newspaper published a single word, no answer came

to me

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the New York Times

on December 23 rd 2007 published an article in which it was written of

the Chikungunya in Italy

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• Il “Ny Times”: Virus Chikungunya “Dai tropici in Italia” 22 dicembre 2007 alle 22:31 — Fonte : repubblica.it

• L’epidemia scatenata dal virus della Chikungunya, nel ravennate, ad agosto e l’Italia, è tornata in prima pagina sul ‘New York Times’: raccontando l’epidemia scoppiata a ferragosto a Castiglione di Cervia, il quotidiano della ‘grande mela’ ha descritto la diffusione del “primo caso di una malattia tropicale in un Paese europeo e sviluppato”.

• “Poiché la terra si surriscalda, i virus tropicali si spostano verso l’Italia”. L’epidemia scatenata dalle zanzare-tigre “ha provato che i virus tropicali sono oggi in grado di diffondersi in nuove aree, molto più a nord di quelle tradizionali”. “La zanzara-tigre, che per la prima volta arrivò a Ravenna tre anni fa, sta prosperando in tutta l’Europa meridionale a anche in Francia e Svizzera. Ma se il virus Chikungunya può diffondersi fino a Castiglione, non c’è alcuna ragione -conclude il quotidiano- per cui non possa colpire qualunque altro paesino italiano; e non c’è alcuna ragione perché non arrivi, per esempio, anche la dengue, una malattia tropicale ancora più debilitante”.

One of numerous dailies thet published ample articles on this illness.

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www.zanzare-risaie.infoE-mail: [email protected] :            

Zanzare-risaie – Post office - box 4 - 13039 Trino (VC) - Italy

mobile:  0039 335 778.28.79

Table of contentsA - Lotta alle zanzare - Una lotta antica - 10 anni di lotta - 1 - 10 anni di lotta – 2 - BTI e ambiente (francese) - Lotta alle zanzare e ambiente -

Efficacia dell'uso della Gambusia – Insetticidi - Il parere di Giorgio Celli – diflubenzuron – presentazione della campagna regionale  2007 contro le zanzare (anche in video) - presentazione  della campagna regionale 2008 contro le zanzare (anche in video) B - Coltivazione del riso

Che cos'è il riso – 1 Che cos'è il riso – 2 Rese della risaie Aziende  e risaie Le risaie in Italia Le risaie in Europa B1 - Coltivazione in asciutta Sperimentazione a Vercelli (1994-1997 in inglese) Sperimentazione in Cina  

(in inglese) Sperimentazione a Vercelli – 2006 Sperimentazione a Vercelli (2) La semina del riso in asciutta riduce le infestazioni di zanzare C - Risaie origini e storia D - Riso e sottosviluppo E - Riso dazi e contributi - Contributi UE : storia e politiche F - Risaie e società - Chi è interessato

dalle risaie - Vox populi- Ridiamoci su - Risaie e TAV - Riso Scotti- Zanzare e istituzioni Ricerca Vape foundation G - Risaie e normativa - Risaie leggi e regolamenti - Regolamento Piemonte - In Senato il  Disegno di Legge per la lotta alle zanzare H - Zanzare e salute - Zanzare e

salute - Malaria in Piemonte - Comunicato stampa - Chikungunya  - arbovirus- risoluzione EMCA - effetti antropogenici in Camargue I - Risaie e consumi d'acqua Dossier acque 2007 Risparmio idrico L - Risaie e

inquinamento acque Ricerca Regione (con allegati vari) M - Risaie e gas serra Risaie e gas serra Produzione per  attivitàProduzione per macrosettore N - Risaie all'estero - In Francia - Giornali Francesi -  Effetti antropogenici in Camargue

O - Risaie e zanzare :  fotografie P - Risaie, zanzare, iniziative e  polemiche ottobre '06 novembre '06 gennaio 2007 marzo '07  (con presentazione video della campagna 2007) radicali e consorzi Intervista (audio) con assessore Scoccati di Casale Monferrato

Pro Natura pubblica un articolo aprile '07 giugno '07 petizione settembre'07 ottobre '07 Q - Risaie siti web zanzare su Youtube R - Risaie zanzare e posta S – Aggiornamenti Zanzare risaie sui giornali Documenti di approfondimento T - Risaie e Turismo 

Risaie e turismo Zanzare e Monferrato U - Risaie e iniziative V - Biodiversità 

We have established a site that furnishes to the web navigators a respectable documentation about the subject providing paper reviews, proposing initiatives, pick up proposals and solicitations of many visitors. Today we believe we can say it has become one of the widest sites specialised in subjects concerning mosquitos and ricefields. Obviously we invite all to visit it

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We would like to thank the pubblic and the press for the attention ed the organizers : l’EMCA to its director

doct. Talbalaghi, the city of Alessandria end the GRA (Gruppo Ricerche Ambientali) for the space that they

have kindly granted us.

GRUPPO RICERCHE AMBIENTALI

Comune di Alessandria

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