Review of some malaria hot spots in Lao Cai province and the management
- Author:
Tran Dinh Dao
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
malaria
- MeSH:
malaria;
Disease;
Disease Management;
therapeutics
- From:Journal of Malaria and parasite diseases Control
2003;0(6):16-20
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Most of malaria hot spots occurred in Lao Cai province from 1998 to 1999 were P.falciparum infections. The rate of parasite infections were high (7.06%-33.75%), because of unorganized migration of population from and to the malaria endemic areas. Illegal migrants often went to Dak Lak and all of them were Mong ethnic, accounted for 70% of unorganized migration in the province. Outbreak control activities were taken in high risk spots. During surveillance, there wasn’t any patient and results of slide were negative or low counts and those were nonresident parasites
