7383

ID#:	7383
Description:	This 1920s photograph, taken somewhere in the southern United States, showed workers practicing “vector control” by digging a drainage ditch, in order to help disperse standing water that was acting as a popular breeding ground for a population of Anopheles mosquitoes, a well known vector for the parasitic disease, malaria. Vector control aims to decrease contacts between humans and vectors of human disease. Control of mosquitoes may prevent malaria as well as several other mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus (WNV), St. Louise encephalitis (SLE), and Dengue fever.
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Content Providers(s):	CDC
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Links:	CDC – Malaria: Topic Home
Categories:	CDC Organization MeSH Biological Sciences Environment and Public Health Public Health Public Health Practice Communicable Disease Control Pest Control Insect Control Mosquito Control Diseases Parasitic Diseases Protozoan Infections Coccidiosis Malaria Geographic Locations Geographic Locations Americas North America United States Southeastern United States
Copyright Restrictions:	None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.
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