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IN his inaugural thesis (These de Paris, No. 707; 1939) Dr. J. C. Levy states that malaria is regarded as an occupational disease, for which appropriate compensation should be made, in certain countries, particularly North America (especially the States of Wisconsin and Illinois), Brazil, Spain and Italy, where its frequency as an occupational disease has given rise to special legislation. In France, on the other hand, there are no legislative measures recognizing malaria as an occupational disease, and compensation for contracting it is allowed only in the case of soldiers, sailors and airmen. Dr. Levy therefore demands that malaria should be added to the list of occupational diseases in France for the following reasons: first, to repair the material damage to which a variety of workers are liable, namely, colonials and labourers in the veldt or canals, and secondly, for the adoption of additional prophylactic measures in conditions and localities where the work involves the risk of contracting malaria.
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Malaria as an Occupational Disease. Nature 145, 853 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145853c0
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