BIOGEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF MALARIA IN TRINIDAD.

Abstract

The report attempts to document various aspects of malaria during the last twenty-five years of its existence on Trinidad. Although active malaria transmission has been stopped in direct response to public health measures, the persistence or reduction of the disease in some areas has not been proportional to the control effort. As in some other parts of the world, malaria receded in the absence of efforts expended on its control; in other areas, despite control measures it has stubbornly resisted eradication. This erratic characteristic of the disease still remains unexplained. The paper presents an introduction to the historical geography of Trinidadian malaria and offers analyses and suggestions for its changing character over the years.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0636426

Entities

People

  • L. Schuyler Fonaroff

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Earth Sciences
  • Geography
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Hygiene
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Medical Specialties
  • Personality
  • Planetary Sciences
  • Public Health
  • Space Sciences
  • Therapy
  • Topography
  • Trinidad

Readers

  • Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).