THE MALARIA DANGER
RAINS BRING THE MOSQUITO. (Our Own Correspondent.) JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 14. With tJie coming of the summer rains has come rthe dangar of moaquitobreeding and cososoquent. malaria. In its weekly bulletin issued yesterday, the IDepartment of Public Health reports that climatic, conditions the whole of Natal’ are now very favourable to mosquito breeding. The department ha.s its full inspecting istaff, European and native, in the field. Specimens of A. gambdae, both adults and larvae, have been sent in from various places on the coast only as far south as ithe Mnini location, but. mainly north of Durban. No cases of fever have, so far. been reported. Steady rains have been falling over ithe Bushveld and Lowveld malaria areas in tho Transvaal, but on account of the previous drought conditions, not much water has been standing for long, and consequently A. gambiae has not yet appeared. Moreover, the swollen hill streams and rivers have had a flushing effect on A. funestus. No fresh infections have, been reported, but a sprinkling of old recurrent malaria has appeared.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 8
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177THE MALARIA DANGER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 8
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