Personal Protection

Personal Protection Protective measures adopted by individuals and families not only help in protecting the individuals against mosquito bites and hence malaria, but also help in reducing the mosquito population by denying the blood meal essential for nourishment of the mosquito eggs in the female anopheles mosquito. Use of mosquito…

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Mosquito Control

Mosquito control is an important component of malaria control strategy, although elimination of malaria in an area does not require the elimination of all Anopheles mosquitoes. In North America and Europe for example, although the vector Anopheles mosquitoes are still present, the parasite has been eliminated. Socio-economic improvements (e.g., houses…

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Control of Malaria

Scandalously scarce resource (Nature, Oct 3, 2002;419:417) for malaria control! Malaria is an acute infectious disease caused by the parasites called Plasmodia and spread by the the vector, the female anopheles mosquito. Control of this dreaded menace would therefore involve three living beings: Man (The host), Plasmodia (The agent), and…

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