TY  - JOUR
T1  - EXtermination of malaria.
Y1  - 1899/07/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450550052013
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 168
EP  - 168
VL  - XXXIII
IS  - 3
N2  - The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will send an expedition to Sierra Leone, Africa, next month, the object being to ascertain whether it is possible to exterminate from a small area the malaria-bearing mosquitoes which infect some parts of that region. The expedition will consist of men connected directly or indirectly with the school, and selected by their fitness for the special work. One of these will be Major Ronald Ross, lecturer in tropical medicine in the University College, Liverpool, who published a paper on "The Possibility of Extirpating Malaria from Certain Localities by a New Method," in the British Medical Journal for July 1. The success of his method of ridding the locality of the mosquito depends on the fact that in their predeveloped stage they are little wriggling larvæ, inhabiting stagnant puddles, especially in marshy regions. The ridding the locality of the pest will be made by filling
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450550052013
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450550052013
ER  -