Vector control practices and strategies against West Nile virus

This report aims to identify and evaluate the operational challenges each country is facing in implementing vector control and to prioritise the needs to be addressed in order to facilitate national public health authorities in developing and/or enhancing their national WNV response capacities. In addition, existing knowledge and operational experience on the effectiveness of vector control practices in reducing WNV risk was collated through a scoping literature review. This review aimed to identify, present and discuss studies on applied aspects of vector control under specific operational scenarios of WNV management, to establish what worked, where and why, and equally, to ascertain what did not work and why.