“Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.” HealthTravelCommon SenseEffectivenessPublic HealthEbolaDisease ControlContainmentYellow FeverEradicationAedes AegyptiAnopheles GambiaeEbola SpreadContagious DiseasesMalaria SpreadYellow Fever SpreadZika Spread Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.” DangerHealthEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaMeans To An EndDisease ControlYellow FeverMalaria EradicationEradicationYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiAnopheles GambiaeMosquito Borne Diseases Author:T.K. Naliaka
“How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.” HealthVirusesEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverVectorsEradicationAedes AegyptiChikungunyaDengueZikaEndemics Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Havana, Cuba, in which city yellow fever had not failed to make its yearly appearance during the past one hundred and forty years... Havana was freed from yellow fever within ninety days. Dr. Walter Reed, 1902” SuccessScienceHealthQuality Of LifeEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesDiscoveriesLife SavingMedical HistoryYellow FeverGame ChangersTransformativeEradicationAedes AegyptiVector ControlWalter ReedMosquito TheoryUs Army Medical Corps Author:Walter Reed
“Recognizing its importance, Aedes aegypti should be studied as a long-term national, regional, and world problem rather than as a temporary local threat to the communities suffering at any given moment from yellow fever, dengue or other aegypti-borne disease. No one can foresee the extent of the future threat of Aedes aegypti to mankind as a vector of known virus diseases, and none can foretell what other virus diseases may yet affect regions where A. aegypti is permitted to remain.” Public HealthMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverEradicationYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiMosquito EradicationChikungunyaDengueZikaFred Lowe Soper Book:Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper Source: Building the Health Bridge: Selections from the Works of Fred L. Soper
“Aedes aegypti, which transmits yellow fever, is one of the feeblest species in its ability for flight and it is at once blown away and destroyed when it gets into a breeze. It therefore seldom wanders from the house in which it was bred.” Public HealthMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverEradicationYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiMosquito EradicationVector ControlChikungunyaDengueZikaWilliam Crawford GorgasTiger Mosquito Book:Sanitation in Panama Source: Sanitation in Panama
“The use of vaccine in the control of yellow fever should occupy more or less the same place that typhoid fever vaccine has in the control of typhoid fever. No sanitary authority would desire to substitute typhoid vaccine for the supply of pure water and food, so we must not accept the yellow fever vaccine as a substitute for the elimination of Aedes aegypti. The vaccine provides individual protection for the person who cannot be protected by more general measures.” DiseaseVaccinesEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesVaccinationYellow FeverMalaria EradicationEradicationTyphoidYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiMosquito EradicationEndemic Author:Fred Lowe Soper
“Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers.” FollyNeglectFoolishnessEpidemicsPublic HealthFailuresMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverFolly QuotesAedes AegyptiVector ControlEndemicChikungunyaDengueZika Author:T.K. Naliaka