Environmental change, development and vectorborne disease: Malaysia’s experience with filariasis, scrub typhus and dengue
Date
2006
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Springer
Abstract
During Malaysia’s rapid economic development into becoming a middle income country in the past several decades, environmental changes resulted in altered land use patterns because of agricultural practices such as large scale rice, rubber and oil palm cultivation. The impact of environmental changes brought about by rice and rubber cultivation affected the breeding habitats of mosquito vectors which in turn affected the prevalence of two strains of lymphatic filariasis in different ways. This article discusses how ecological factors determine the way lymphatic filariasis, scrub typhus and dengue were spread in Malaysia.
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dengue, development, ecological changes, environment, lymphatic filariasis, malaria, Malaysia, vectorborne disease
Citation
Kwa, B. H. (2008). Environmental change, development and vectorborne disease: Malaysia’s experience with filariasis, scrub typhus and dengue. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 10, 209-217.