Review of two malaria swiddenfield malaria outbreaks in Nghe An, 2003
- Author:
Le -- Thuan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Malaria
- MeSH:
Malaria;
epidemiology;
Malaria, Falciparum
- From:Journal of Malaria and parasite diseases Control
2003;0(1):9-17
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In 2003, 2 small swidden field malaria outbreaks were identified in Tuong Duong district of Nghe An province. Although different development of the first time, malaria outbreaks developed in swiddenfield, then transmissed into villages. A lots of patients have confirmed to have malaria. One death case was caused by the late hospital admission. The number of working and overnight people on the swiddenfields increased at the hot spot time as this was the harvesting time and the school children had summer holiday and joined their parents’ work here (29.1 – 48.9% of household and 27.2-28.4% of population in the hamlets). They did not use mosquito nets. The infection rate of malaria among the swiddenfield people was 13.5 – 60.5% and 7.4 – 42.2%, respectively. The mass blood screen showed the presence of both P.falciparum and P.vivax (P.falciparum in Ang village and both P.falciparum and P.vivax in Phong village). A high malaria infected rate in 2 outbreaks showed a limited diagnosis and treatment’s quality of local health. Cold parasites were found to be high, with P.falciparum and combined form
