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| Keywords: Vector Control.jpg This 1920s photograph taken somewhere in the southern United States showed workers practicing vector control by digging a drainage ditch in order to help disperse standing water that was acting as a popular breeding ground for a population of Anopheles mosquitoes a well known vector for the parasitic disease malaria Vector control aims to decrease contacts between humans and vectors of human disease Control of mosquitoes may prevent malaria as well as several other mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus WNV St Louise encephalitis SLE and Dengue fever 7383 Public Health Image Library PHIL PD-USGov Mosquito control Drainage canals in the United States African American men Digging United States in the 1920s Men at work in the United States 1920s photographs | ||||
