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Malaria in Infancy
Get PDFA CAJM article on malaria fever in small children in Africa of the 1950's.To the epidemiologist malaria in the infant is of two-fold interest. In highly "malarious" areas it is the first attacks, occurring during the early years of life, which build up a relative immunity at the cost of considerable death and disability. Secondly, the rate of infection in the infant serves as a useful yardstick of transmission and is widely used as a measure of the success of control.
The effects of malaria are extremely variable and are often more obvious in the areas where transmission is less intense
PARACHUTING CATS AND CRUSHED EGGS The Controversy Over the Use of DDT to Control Malaria
No full textThe use of DDT to control malaria has been a contentious practice for decades.
This controversy centers on concerns over the ecological harm caused by DDT
relative to the gains in public health from its use to prevent malaria. Given
the World Health Organization's recent policy decisions concerning the
use of DDT to control malaria, it is worth reviewing the historical context of
DDT use
Transmission of Onchocerca volvulus and prospects for the elimination of its vector, the blackfly Simulium neavei in the Mpamba-Nkusi focus in Western Uganda
No full textShrimp (Pandalus borealis) growth and timing of the spring phytoplankton bloom on the Newfoundland?Labrador Shelf
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