Health Hygiene & Sanitation

Lesson 42 : Prevention Of Arthropod Borne Infections

Introduction

Arthropods comprise of most numerous living things around the man’s environment. Some are helpful while others are dangerous enemies, spoiling the crops, food reserves and carriers of diseases. Arthropods include mosquitoes, flies, lice, fleas, bugs, ticks, mites and Cyclops. Arthropod borne diseases includes malaria, filaria, dengue, Chikungunya, Japanese Encephalitis and others.