James Busvine

Disease Transmission by Insects (eBook, PDF)

Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent it

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

About 100 years ago, it was dicovered that insects transmit grave, mainly tropical diseases - very much to the astonishment of the physicians of that time, who saw this as a new, possibly easy, way of eradicating the diseases by exterminating the vectors. For some years, DDT and other then new insecticides achieved great improvements, but subsequently serious setbacks emerged: insecticide-resistance and anxiety about toxicity to man and animals. In the past twenty years, serious efforts have been made tofind alternatives, with varying degrees of success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 361
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783642457166
• Artikelnr.: 53098210

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Discovery of Unsuspected Dangers.- Prologue: How Arthropods Came to Transmit Human Diseases.- Section 1: The Insect Vectors.- Section 2: Diseases Transmitted by Mites and Ticks.- Some Concluding Remarks Regarding the Transmission of Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- 2: Control Measures Pre-DDT.- Early Responses to New Opportunities.- Control Measures During the Inter-War Period.- The Control of Various Insect-Borne Diseases.- 3: The Impact of the new Pesticides.- New Kinds of Insecticide.- Advances in the Control of Various Insect-Borne Diseases.- 4: Modern Problems and Possibilities.- The Present Predicament.- Current Options for Vector Control.- Human Factors in Vector Control.