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As the result of the energetic measures adopted by the Soviet authorities, the incidence of malaria in the U.S.S.R. has greatly declined. According to Prof. Sergiyev, head of the Malaria Department of the Commissariat of Health and director of the Central Tropical Institute, during the first six months of 1936 there was a drop of about 35 per cent in the number of malaria cases and of 40 per cent in the number of deaths from malaria as compared with the corresponding period of 1935. With the object of destroying the malaria-carrying mosquitoes, two and a half million infested areas were sprayed with oil, partly by aeroplanes. Mosquito netting was introduced into the badly infested areas. 100 motorcars and 260 microscopes were supplied to the malaria stations. During the summer, 500 doctors and senior students took part in the anti-malarial campaign, which was carried on by 1,800 permanent malaria organizations.
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Decline in Malaria in Soviet Russia. Nature 139, 22 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139022c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139022c0