[PDF] Top 20 Report on the status of Aedes aegypti eradication in the Americas

... This shows that the problem has not been solved and that the existence of extensive enzootic yellow fever areas in the Hemisphere will continue to repeatedly expose the c[r] ... See full document

... Bearing in mind that at its 70th Meeting the Executive Committee called attention to the importance of preventing diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti and to the problem ... See full document

... Americas 1958 and 1961 by Status of Malaria Eradication ... Personnel employed in Spraying Operations in Malaria Eradication.. Programs in the Americas, 31 December 1958 and 31 December [r] ... See full document

... Recent observations in Central America indicate that systematic and regular DDT cover- age has reduced the number of malaria cases even in areas where susceptibili[r] ... See full document

... Tables: I Status of the Malaria Eradication Program in the Americas, 1959 5 II Area and Population of Countries and Other Political Units Where Mat-ria is not Known to Have Occurr[r] ... See full document

... Taking into account the final reports on Aedes aegypti eradication presented by Chile and Costa. Rica, which declare those countries to be free of the vector, in strict compliance with t[r] ... See full document

... The following year the campaign staff was augmented and their salaries increased, and it was then possible not only to shorthen the work cycle but also improve the supervision of field p[r] ... See full document

... Cura2ao - This island is extensively infested; however, in view of the resistance of the mosquito to DDT and to dieldrin, the campaign is lim- iting its activities to control[r] ... See full document

... The experiments with alternative insecticides to attack doubly-resistant species continued and expanded. Malathion spraying continued in Nicaragua and was initiated in the problem area o[r] ... See full document

... In one problem area of Honduras with very high DDT resistance, where more than 2,000 cases of P. It was centered on Pochutla in the state of Oaxaca, and embraced [r] ... See full document

... The increase in the over-all total is made up of increases in a number of programs -in Jamaica which was in the final year of its consolidation phase; in Hondu[r] ... See full document

... Resolution XXI expressed satisfaction at the fact that smallpox had already disappeared in some countries of the Americas and that nationwide and intensive campaigns were being conducted[r] ... See full document

... the programs where all or part of a country has only recently begun eradication work (for example~ Cuba and Haiti) the malaria services are profiting from earlier[r] ... See full document

... The phase of total coverage will start 1 January 1957, with the spraying of about three million houses; however, on 7 September 1956 a gigantic pilot campaign, which will last [r] ... See full document

... In Venezuela, 94.4 per cent of the population of the originally malarious area are p r esently in maintenance phase and the rest in attack phase. In the maintenance area 104 autochtho- n[r] ... See full document

... This measure was adopted as the attack method in an area in Nicaragua; incidence was reduced during 1968 from its 1967 levels, but the reduction was less than tha[r] ... See full document

... It can be observed that while the areas and population claimed or registered as having malaria eradication increased, there was a reduction in areas under attack [r] ... See full document

... In the case of generalized initial infestation or ovular endurance, two more consecutive negative verifications, by search for foci, will be an additional requirement, [r] ... See full document

... The Special Commission for the Assessment of the Smallpox Eradication Program in South America analized and discussed in detail the information and documentation present[r] ... See full document

... Of the 2,772 localities inspected, 156 were found infested and, of. these, 147 are already.free of the mosquito,. Up to the present only very limited infestation was. found in..the cap[r] ... See full document