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Title: | Relationship between Anophelism of Fish Ponds and Malaria Transmission at Lwiro-Katana, Eastern Zaire |
Author: | Basabose, Kanyunyi |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 149-158 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
Subjects: | malaria aquaculture Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/ASM%20%20Vol.16%20No.3%201995/Kanyunyi%20BASABOSE.pdf |
Abstract: | The people of Lwiro-Katana, South Kivu Region, Zaire, link the recent increase in malaria infection with the rapid growth in the number of fish ponds since 1987. The fish ponds serve as the habitat of immature stages of the local malaria vector species, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. A study of the anopheles larvae population in the fish ponds, carried out in 1992, indicates that the larvae of these two species together comprise 98.33 percent of all the mosquitoes found in the ponds in contagious distribution and that they were particularly abundant from February to May. A significant correlation was found between the relative density of malaria vector species in the fish ponds and the number of malaria patients registered at the health centres of Lwiro-Katana. Bibliogr., sum. |