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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The Asian tiger mosquito is increasingly being sighted in Baden-Württemberg.
According to the State Health Office in Stuttgart (LGA), the mosquito was first discovered in the greater Stuttgart area last summer.
The municipality of Möhringen, for example, but also the city of Korntal-Münchingen in the Ludwigsburg district, Musberg in the Esslingen district and the Kernen municipality in the Remstal in the Rems-Murr district were affected.
The first major occurrences of the tiger mosquito from Southeast Asia were detected in an allotment garden in Baden-Württemberg in 2015 in Freiburg.
The spread is favored primarily by high summer temperatures and mild winter months, which allow mosquito eggs to overwinter.
"In addition to individual finds, established populations and eggs were also found," said Christiane Wagner-Wiening, deputy head of the health protection and epidemiology department at the state health office on Tuesday.
According to her, the mosquito spreads through the international movement of goods and people.
But the exotic animals that come to Germany by air, truck or ship bring new dangers with them.
The animals are ideal carriers of viruses that cause chikungunya fever or dengue fever.
“The risk of transmission of exotic viruses from infected travelers is currently still very low.
If the tiger mosquito can spread undisturbed, the risk increases, ”warns Wagner-Wiening.
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State Health Office Stuttgart