Mozzi-Mort Insect Killing Paint
Mozzi-Mort.
Mozzi-Mort™ is a revolutionary lifesaving and clinically approved insecticidal coating specifically developed to eradicate insect pests and thus restrict the diseases they carry. Simply apply to surfaces where insects fly or crawl and they will be affected quickly become paralysed and die within minutes.
Vector Borne Diseases
A disease that is transmitted to humans or other animals by an insect or other arthropod is called a vector-borne disease. Vector-borne diseases and those with intermediate hosts are among the major causes of illness and death in many tropical and subtropical countries. Such diseases, which include malaria, Chagas, dengue, leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis and African trypanosomiasis, significantly impede economic and social development.
The number of people who are affected by vector borne disease belies the imagination. For example 750 million people in 76 countries live in areas of endemic filiariasis, and an estimated 118 million are infected with filariae (WHO 1995). In India alone 50,000-100,000 die every year from visceral leishmaniasis .
Malaria, the most important protozoal disease infecting humans, occurs in areas where Anopheles mosquitoes are present, and causes some 300-500 million clinical cases and between 1,000,000 and 3,000,000 deaths per year. Approximately 7% of children who survive cerebral malaria (a severe form of the disease, characterized by coma and convulsions) are left with permanent neurological problems. These include weakness, spasticity, blindness, speech problems and epilepsy. Pregnant women and their unborn children are particularly vulnerable to malaria which is a major cause of perinatal mortality, low birth weight and maternal anaemia.
Mozzi-Mort can limit the spread of disease
The use of an insecticide such as Mozzimort in a public health setting to limit the spread of disease is known as vector control. Vector control plays a key role in prevention and control of major vector-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and Chagas disease and often constitutes the first line of activity in case of epidemics of vector-borne diseases. Chemical control (use of pesticides) is still the most important element in the integrated approach to vector control.
Lambda-cyhalothrin,
Is a pyrethroid insecticide with contact and stomach action, offering rapid knockdown and long residual activity, is valued for its broad-spectrum control. Pyrethroids work by disrupting the nervous channel of the insect. More specifically the mode of action is called “sodium channel modulation” which leads to prolonged excitation of the nervous system. When a mosquito, for instance, lands on the treated surface, the enlarged cuticle will absorb traces of Mozzi-Mort™ via a process of osmosis. This will result in paralysis and death within a few minutes.
Where has it been tested?
Extensive testing has been carried out by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, as well as Pacific BioLabs in California, USA.
The active ingredient of Mozzi-Mort is approved by WHOPES
(World Health Organisation Pesticide Evaluation Scheme). WHOPES promotes and coordinates the testing and evaluation of pesticides for public health. It functions through the participation of representatives of governments, manufacturers of pesticides and pesticide application equipment and the organisation’s objective is to facilitate the search for alternative pesticides and application methods that are safe and economic
