{"id":13466,"date":"2023-10-10T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/?p=13466"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:50:06","slug":"epa-cartagena-sigue-campana-de-sensibilizacion-ante-invasion-de-caracol-africano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/epa-cartagena-sigue-campana-de-sensibilizacion-ante-invasion-de-caracol-africano\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Cartagena sigue campa\u00f1a de sensibilizaci\u00f3n ante invasi\u00f3n de Caracol Africano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cartagena D.T. y C. 10 de octubre 2023. El Establecimiento P\u00fablico Ambiental, EPA Cartagena, reitera la alerta sobre la proliferaci\u00f3n de casos de presencia del caracol africano en diversas zonas de la ciudad debido a las lluvias e invita a la ciudadan\u00eda a tomar medidas atendiendo algunas recomendaciones para minimizar riesgos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EPA Cartagena sigue campa\u00f1a de sensibilizaci\u00f3n ante invasi\u00f3n de Caracol Africano\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FeT_elQCWVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A trav\u00e9s de visitas t\u00e9cnicas y pedag\u00f3gicas, EPA Cartagena insta a la comunidad a que por s\u00ed misma pueda tomar las medidas para minimizar los riesgos y se explica qu\u00e9 hacer ante casos de caracol africano. Este a\u00f1o se han atendido m\u00e1s de 100 casos en diversos sectores de la ciudad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EPA Cartagena invita a la ciudadan\u00eda a seguir las recomendaciones e incluso acudir a los videos l\u00fadicos que se encuentran en la p\u00e1gina de la entidad (<a href=\"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/\">www.epacartagena.gov.co<\/a>) que tratan sobre c\u00f3mo darle manejo preventivo a casos que se presenten en sus sectores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esta especie de Caracol es considerado una especie invasora y una de las 100 clases m\u00e1s perjudiciales y peligrosas del mundo, tanto para el ambiente como para la salud humana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Este molusco porta par\u00e1sitos en su baba que pueden ocasionar graves enfermedades como la meningitis, la bronquitis, la estrongiloidiasis, entre otras, y se reproduce por huevos en la arena h\u00fameda. Por estos motivos, t\u00e9cnicos del \u00c1rea del Flora y Fauna del EPA recomiendan no manipular estos animales sin protecci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RECOMENDACIONES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ante la presencia del Caracol Gigante Africano, se recomienda:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No tocar los caracoles y evitar el contacto con la baba, especialmente con ojos, nariz, boca y heridas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lavar inmediatamente sus manos, si toc\u00f3 al caracol o cualquier superficie que pueda haber estado en contacto con baba o heces del caracol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No utilizar el caracol como mascota o carnada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No utilizar venenos contra el caracol, ya que pueden afectar a ni\u00f1os y adultos, mascotas, fauna nativa, cultivos y contaminar el suelo, las aguas y los alimentos, con el mismo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eliminar del jard\u00edn basura, escombros, restos de madera o cualquier elemento que pueda ser usado como refugio por el caracol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capturar los caracoles, cuando sea necesaria su manipulaci\u00f3n, sin tocarlos directamente con las manos, usar guantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acumularlos en recipientes o bolsas bien cerradas con Cal o Sal, para su posterior disposici\u00f3n final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CARACTER\u00cdSTICAS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El caracol africano tiene una concha c\u00f3nica con rayas longitudinales de color marr\u00f3n oscuro y beige, su tronco y cabeza tienen textura gomosa y de color marr\u00f3n. Puede alcanzar hasta los 30 cent\u00edmetros de longitud y la concha del caracol en su parte final posee entre 7 y 9 espirales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"13465\" src=\"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-10-at-2.37.33-PM-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-10-at-2.37.33-PM-2.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-10-at-2.37.33-PM-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-10-10-at-2.37.33-PM-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, 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El Establecimiento P\u00fablico Ambiental, EPA Cartagena, reitera la alerta sobre la proliferaci\u00f3n de casos de presencia del caracol africano en diversas zonas de la ciudad debido a las lluvias e invita a la ciudadan\u00eda a tomar medidas atendiendo algunas recomendaciones para minimizar riesgos. A trav\u00e9s de visitas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-control-y-vigilancia","category-flora-y-fauna","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epacartagena.gov.co\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}