Handbook of general information on Aedes aegypti eradication

Littig, Kent S.; Pratt, Harry D.

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Handbook of general information on Aedes aegypti eradication

Published Date:

March 1967

Series:

Aedes aegypti handbook series ; no. 1

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Handbook of general information on Aedes aegypti eradication

Details:

Personal Authors:

Littig, Kent S. ; Pratt, Harry D. ;

Corporate Authors:

National Communicable Disease Center (U.S.), Aedes aegypti Eradication Program.

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Description:

Introduction -- Aedes aegypti and disease transmission -- Life history and habits of Aedes aegypti -- History of Aedes aegypti eradication

"Eradication of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti from the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands was begun in 1964 as a cooperative program of the state and local health departments and Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service. This handbook describes the objectives of the yellow fever mosquito eradication program, the present problem, and the organization of effort to meet those objectives." p. 1

Document Type:

Pamphlet (or booklet)

Collection(s):

Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection

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