Representatives of various entities linked to health and environmental activists protested today against aerial spraying to take place in Puerto Rico the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, for its acronym in English).
The demonstrators came to the outskirts of the CDC office in San Juan to denounce such federal agency will water the chemical known as NALED from an airplane from Friday.
"We are opposed because the NALED is a broad spectrum insecticide, which means that not only will kill the mosquito zika, but also will kill a variety of organisms in the ecosystem, for animals such as birds and fish, but especially kills bees, "said Vilma Calderon nutritionist.
"If you kill the bees, we have no agriculture and if we have agriculture, we have no food," he added.
Calderon and Domingo Caceres, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, noted that the chemical is also harmful to humans.
Caceres even said that it is "an experiment in Puerto Rico and we are tired to experiment with the citizens of Puerto Rico."
"I know that this pesticide has some toxic characteristics," he said. "It is a phosphate organ and these particles would be suspended for a time, per hour. People are going to breathe, you will have contact on the skin of children and adults. "
"If you would use in high doses, this would cause dizziness, convulsions, respiratory paralysis ... because that's what these chemicals," he added.
They also criticized that has not been issued to alert public information fumigation. In fact, Caceres said he learned through a press conference to be fumigated in the areas of San Juan and Caguas.
Calderon said that they intended to deliver a letter to the CDC, but protesters said security personnel at the entrance of the agency assured them that there were administrative employees available.
