Deployed Warfighter Protection (Army)
Abstract
For the Armed Forces Pest Management Board (AFPMB), the Deployed Warfighter Protection program plans to develop new or improved protection for military personnel from disease-carrying insect and tick vectors of disease pathogens. The focus of this program is to develop new or improved systems for controlling insects and other biting arthropods that transmit malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika virus and other emerging infectious disease pathogens under austere, remote, and combat conditions; understand the physiology of insecticidal activity to develop new compounds with greater specific activity and/or higher user acceptability; examine existing area repellents for efficacy and develop new spatially effective repellent systems useful in military situations; develop new methods or formulations for treating cloth to prevent vector biting; and expand the number of active ingredients and formulations of public health pest pesticides, products and application technologies available for safe and effective applications. The AFPMB partners with the US Department of Agriculture, President’s Malaria Initiative and the World Health Organization to lead the development of new management tools against insect vectors that transmit pathogens and against other pest species that can negatively impact military operations at home and abroad.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 830A_0603115DHA_2_0130_PB_2018
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