Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: The coastal areas of Madagascar have stable malaria like much of lowland tropical Africa. However, the highlands (1000–1500 meters) had unstable seasonal Plasmodium fal-ciparum malaria since its arrival in the 19th century when rice growing was introduced there.1 At the end of the French colonial era in the 1950s, malaria and its main vector Anoph-eles funestus were suppressed to near or complete eradica-tion in the highlands. This was achieved by spraying DDT mixed with HCH in over a million houses and mass che-moprophylaxis of schoolchildren with chloroquine given 3 times per week at 2375 schoolchildren’s treatment centers.2 In Antananarivo province the percentage of positive blood slides was reduced from 25–35 % in the late 1940s to 0.18% (6 positive among 3348 slides from children aged 2–10 years) in 1955. An. funestus, which had been abundant rest-
Author: C F Curtis
Institution: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Language: English
Topic: Malaria Research and Control
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1890262678