PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
11th DIRECTING COUNCIL
11th SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 21 - 30 September 1959
RESOLUTION
CD11.R13
STATUS OF AEDES AEGYPTI ERADICATION IN THE AMERICAS
THE 11th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Bearing in mind the reports presented at this meeting by Guatemala and Honduras on the status of
the eradication of Aedes aegypti, according to which those countries are declared to be free of
Aedes aegypti, after satisfactorily meeting the standards on which the criteria established by the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau for that purpose are based,
RESOLVES
To accept the reports presented, in which it is declared that Guatemala and Honduras are free of
Aedes aegypti, and to call upon the other countries and territories that are still infested to intensify
their anti-aegypti activities in accordance with the terms of the resolution approved at the XI Pan
American Sanitary Conference in Rio de Janeiro, and to recommend that those countries in which
the vector has already been eradicated maintain a strict vigilance in order to prevent reinfestations.