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Malaria remains one of the worst killers in the world today and is the cause of even greater suffering in human, social, and economic terms. This chapter seeks to introduce the reader to various facets of this age-old disease, including malaria disease ecology, the course of malaria occurrence and diffusion over the ages, and the various traditional and public health measures that have been used for...
This chapter highlights the ways in which urban malaria in India continued to be a source of great concern to the government, health planners, and related officials all the way into the early 1990s. It updates the scenarios described and analyzed in the previous chapter up to the year 1997, the latest year of the twentieth century for which urban malaria data were available to the authors. The previous...
Urban malaria has become an important issue in the overall strategies in the control/eradication of malaria in India. This chapter highlights the fact that unplanned and haphazard developmental activities have resulted in deteriorating urban environments, which in turn have created conducive breeding areas for certain malaria vectors such as Anopheles stephensi. This chapter identifies urban regions...
This highly topical book provides an in-depth account of the South Asian experience with the deadly disease that has held this region hostage for millennia. The book touches specifically on the resurgence of malaria experienced in the second half of the twentieth century, which occurred just a few years after malaria was thought to have been virtually eradicated from the region. The causes and consequences...
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