French Public Health Code
In forceI.- The objectives of insect-borne disease control are:
1° To prevent the establishment and development of pathogen vectors through hygiene and sanitation measures;
2° To reduce the transmission of pathogens and to manage vector-borne disease epidemics through rapid intervention around human cases.
II.The measures that may be taken to this end in application of article L. 3114-5 are as follows:
1° Health information and education aimed at involving the population in actions to reduce the proliferation of insect vectors and to promote individual protection;
2° Hygiene and sanitation measures necessary to prevent the establishment and development of insect vectors;
3° Entomological surveillance of insect vectors and intervention around new establishments;
4° Surveillance, by the competent State services and in accordance with the procedures laid down by order of the Minister for Agriculture, of animals likely to be contaminated by pathogens transmitted by vector insects;
5° Epidemiological surveillance of human cases of diseases transmitted by vector insects;
6° Measures relating to prospecting, treatment and work around places frequented by reported human cases in order to limit the spread of vector-borne diseases and the risk of epidemics;
7° Preparing for and responding to epidemics.
