In Rural
Africa, outfitting wooden shutters and doors are closed against mosquito as
the afternoon sunsets. In Kenyo, wads of fibres are inserted between the top of
the wall and the roof, functioning as a screen that lets air through but keeps
mosquito out along the swampy coast of Sierra Leone, people envelope them
selves in thick cloth made from locally spun and woven cotton.
Dr C.F Cutis of the London school of
hygiene and Tropical medicine tested a typical cloth of this type and found it
to thick for mosquito to penetrate and therefore effective as a means of
protection from bites.
The Dinka people of rural southern Sudan
mix cow-dug as hand cow urine, rubbing
it on the exposed in the evening.
In savanna and other areas where
anopheles mosquito predominates, animals are placed near the house entrance at
night providing an accessible blood meal. In some areas, small animals such as
goats are taken into the house at night and kept near the sleeping mat or foam,
offering an alternative blood meal for
any mosquito that might have entered the house. However if the number of
animals suddenly decreases may be war or other causes, human being becomes at
risk (Maccomark, 1984).
An important fact that is overlooked is
that much malaria is caused by man examples by Engineers who carelessly leave
pits, dams, upstream e.t.c by irrigation, poor disposal of kitchen waste example empty canned foods,
floreding ours sites in which anopheles mosquito breeds. Ideally, reservoirs
and irrigation canls must be designed with smooth barks to flush the mosquito
larval away (Maccormack, 1984). Spraying with insecticides interrupts malaria
transmission. Spraying produces a marked and rapid reduction in both the
incidence and prevalence of malaria.
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