Malaria Fever

Inangahua Times, 6 November 1934, Page 4

Malaria Fever

The new Lower Zambesi bridge has been eompleted after three aud a half years’ work. What is remarkable is that in that time, owing to the mosquito control system, not a single ease of malaria occurred among all the European employees brought from England to work on the bridge. It cost the United! States trovernmont 000,000 to stamp out mosquitoes in the Panama Canal Zone, thereby wiping ont malaria and. so making possible the construction of the Panama Canal. Malaria is a parasite within the body of the mosquite. Only the female mosquitoes pan infect human beings with the disease, the males never feeding on human beings. The female mosquitoes, after gorging themselves with blood, lay their eggs on the surface of the nearest stagnant water, where the larvae soon hatch. By covering the water with a thin film of oil the air tubes of the larvae are sealed and so they die through lack of air-. For the control of the disease it is essential to searsh eut every pool of stagnant water, however small, and to pour oil on it, for it is only by attacking the breeding ground of the insect that the fever can be stamped out. Where these methods of eentrol are not possible certain small fish that love the eggs and larvae of mosquitoes and will feed on them all day long are introduced.

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