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Advances in Human Vector Control (Hardcover)
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Advances in Human Vector Control (Hardcover)
Series: ACS Symposium Series
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A combination of population growth, public health failures,
environmental degradation and rapid global transportation has
resulted in a world that is at increasing risk to vectorborne and
other infectious diseases. A large percentage of emerging diseases
are vectorborne and over one-third of the agents on the list of
greatest concern from bioterrorism are vectorborne. Many of these
diseases are viral that have no effective drug or vaccine
treatments. Drug and insecticide resistance is now common and has
greatly compromised our ability to provide effective and affordable
control. Parasitic diseases, including malaria, leishmmaniasis and
African trypanosomiasis are likewise increasing in many parts of
the world. Control programs for onchocerciasis and to some extent
filariasis are reducing the impact of these diseases, largely due
to the availability of filaricides such as ivermectin. Chagas
disease has also declined significantly through home improvements
and indoor insecticide application against the domicilary kissing
bug vectors.
Despite these gains, this tend has not been sustainable. Instead,
infectious disease is now responsible for greater than 25% of all
deaths and nearly 50% of premature deaths among those under 45
years of age, and 63% for children less than 4 years of age. A
significant proportion of these deaths is attributed to vectorborne
diseases, particularly from malaria ( 11%). Indeed, more that 1
million people are killed annually by malaria, about 3000 per day.
It is estimated that 700,000 children under the age of 5 die of
malaria and at least 300 million are ill due to malaria each year.
In response, the American Institute of Medicine (2003) has called
for a renewed effort to rebuild public health infrastructures
needed to conduct disease surveillance and vector control programs
and to increase research to provide improved pesticides and their
use, new repellents, new biopestcides and biocontrol agents to
augment pesticidal control, as well as novel strategies to
interrupt pathogen transmission.
With these goals in mind, we convened the first vector control
symposium as part of the scientific program of the 3rd Pan-Pacific
Conference of Pesticide Science in 2003. Five years after (2008),
we re-convened this expanded topic at the 4th Pan-Pacific
Conference on Pesticide Science and the scientific presentations
made over two days comprise this current volume, Advances in Human
Vector Control. The book covers two major areas: 1) Current Status
and Control Practices, covering malaria, dengue, Chagas, human
lice, cockroach and house dust mite issues; and 2) Novel Approaches
and Resistance Management of these diseases. Chapters are provided
by internationally-recognized experts who are actively involved in
vector control and management, providing an up to date summary of
this critically important area of public health. The effective use
of novel control strategies is stressed and the status of recently
acquired genomic approaches is critically reviewed.
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