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THE enthusiast who is ‘eradicating’ malaria by any or all of the well known methods, should cease for a while from his labours and study the short report recently issued by the League of Nations and referred to below.1 In Col. James's words, “He will at least realise what a great waste of effort is involved in measures directed against the breeding-places of mosquitoes as a whole and even in similar measures directed against one species. He will begin to appreciate how the secret of a successful control of malaria lies not in the general knowledge that the disease is spread by mosquitoes of a certain kind, but in the particular exact knowledge of the life history of the few individual mosquitoes which succeed in becoming transmitters of the disease.”
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League of Nations: Health Organisation—Malaria Commission. Report on the First Results of Laboratory Work on Malaria in England. By Lieut.-Colonel S. P. James and P. G. Shute. (C.H./Malaria/57) (1).) Pp. 30. Geneva: League of Nations; London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1926.)
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S., J. Malaria and the Mosquito. Nature 118, 452 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118452a0
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