These recycled water bottle traps may have global implications in terms of mitigating the impact of insect transmitted disease. Invertebrates are very common vectors of disease. About half of the world’s population is at risk to malaria, which claims about 700,000 lives every year. The African tsetse fly serves as a vector for the transmission of African trypanosomiasis, which claims around 50,000 lives annually. Flys also carry Typhoid, Myiasis, Dysentery, Leprosy, Leishmaniasis, Onchocerciasis, and Bartonellosis. Flies harbor bacteria and parasites that can be spread when they touch surfaces with their legs or their saliva. Impoverished regions suffer the most heavily from these diseases and so our projects aim was to develop insect traps from things accessible to anyone. Our world has an abundance of plastic bottles but limited resources for pest control. Rather then relying on environmentally damaging pesticides or commercial insect traps, people can just find plastic water bottles and turn them into something that could potentially decrease their risk of catching an insect transmitted disease. These traps could save peoples lives and money. Below is some information on some of the diseases that flies carry.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0117442/html/diseases.html
-This resource provides information on the variety of diseases flies carry such as dysentery, leprosy, and African sleeping sickness. Gives detailed descriptions and graphic images to further explain these diseases.
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