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The success of pest control has a direct relation to the success of disease control. Our ability to prevent disease, is directly connected to our ability to prevent pests.

The connection is painfully obvious when we look at the names of some of our most notorious and most feared diseases like the avian flu, (bird flu) and some of the diseases transmitted primarily by pests, such as malaria, and dengue fever, transmitted by mosquitoes, and an endless list of diseases carried by flies, fleas, and cockroaches, to name only a few.

Pest control and disease control in under developed regions

In under developed regions, these diseases are difficult to prevent due to insect problems which are themselves difficult to prevent since the technology for pest prevention,  pest control, sanitation, and such advancements as equipment for draining swamps has not kept pace with the human population.

In developed countries, the problem of disease transmitting pest is less obvious, but still real. The threat is always present, and only a system failure or two away from rising up and destroying.

Pest treatments and disease treatments alone will not work

Our chemical pest control methods will go only so far, good pest prevention techniques will provide far better results in the long run. Our disease treatments will only go so far, unless we get rid of the cause of the disease. Keeping the same habits, will only produce the same results. Prevention is the answer for both. In fact, preventing pests will almost eliminate the disease problem in most cases.

It should be remembered that the use of DDT in our own country once destroyed bedbug populations to the extent that an entire generation or more was free of them. With it’s removal from the market, a gradual return of the tiny creatures has been experienced. Preventive measures were never really put into effect on a wide scale.

Evidence that chemicals alone do not work can be seen in areas where DDT is still used, but insects and disease still prevail. In such places, treatment for insects, and treatment for disease will never win unless wide scale prevention becomes the focus.