The transmission of malaria in Borneo

Abstract

Anopheles leucosphyrus (a jungle feeder) and not A. maculatus, is the important malaria vector in N. Borneo. Control measures designed to eliminate the latter sp. actually encourages the increase in the true vector. Efficient control measures through jungle clearance and the grazing of the cleared land by cattle have been developed and A. leucosphyrus driven out with the subsequent diminution of the number of malaria cases following such measures.