REVIVE
Published 8 November 2026, 20:40
REVIVE — Rede de Vigilância de Vetores (vector surveillance network)
Ongoing monitoring of mosquitoes, ticks and sandflies across the country: traps are set at airports, ports, the border and in populated areas, and whatever is caught is identified by species and tested for viruses. It is run by INSA and DGS together with local public health services. This is how residents find out that a new species has appeared in their area.
Where you come across it. Reports that the tiger mosquito has been found in your concelho.
Finding a species and finding an infected mosquito are different things: the former only means that the species has settled here.