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"This may be old, but it was written by a panel of the world's most highly experienced malariologists, just before the advent of synthetic residual insecticides, when environmental approaches and techniques were still "mainstream" Afronets 2000.
"Railway construction in the tropics is nearly always associated with fulminent epidemics of malaria—"a death a sleeper" is the generalisation on the happenings" (Senior-White, 1928)
"Urban areas can be divided into two zones: the central zone, where the lack of suitable standing water renders vector reproductionextremely rare and where malaria transmission is significantly reduced compared to more rural areas, and the periurban areas, where increased population density and poor sanitation provide a more hospitable environment for vector reproduction. Malaria transmission in periurban areas is particularly problematic where the resident populations are migrants displaced from more malaria endemic rural areas (see also Nájera JA, BH Liese, and J Hammer (1992) Malaria: New Patterns and Perspectives World Bank Technical Paper no. 183. After this principle was understood, according to Litsios, R. Senior White speculated that it had been the introduction of turnip culture in the middle of the century to provide winter food for cattle, which by saving the herds from annual slaughter had initiated improvements in animal husbandry effectively reduced a by distracting vector mosquitoes and therebydampened the transmission of the disease".
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| Name | Senior-White, Ronald A |
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| Short description | British entomologist |
| Date of birth | 1891 |
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| Date of death | 1954 |
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