Tag: Indoor residual spraying
Indoor residual spraying for mosquito control – the importance of training spray operators
IPCadmin |
July 3, 2016
Indoor residual spraying (IRS) with DDT began in the 1940’s in Sardinia where full-scale operations were carried out to control Anopheles labranchiae to control malaria. In the Italian campaign, the number of cases of malaria fell from 78,173 in 1944 to 44 in 1950. This led to WHO launching a Global Malaria Eradication Programme in […]