surgery, which attracted a considerable amount of attention,?and which have been freely quoted in the lay press and in the medical journals of Europe and America. To our numerous contributors, we beg to offer our sincere thanks. The following subjects have been very frequently dealt with during the past year:?On malaria, we published quite a remarkable number of admirable papers on mosquitos an...

being to another. To destroy all peccant mosquitos and rats in places where malaria or plague exists or may be expected is a very large order and not easy to execute. And, after all, it is very questionable whether mosquito and rat intermediacy expresses the whole truth as regards the propagation of malarial fevers and plague. These measures, in as far as they are practicable, may be useful as ...

Arboviroses como Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya e Febre amarela têm sido um grande problema de saúde pública em regiões tropicais subtropicais. O alto número casos destas doenças é associado nessas com a expansão geográfica do mosquito vetor que pertencente ao gênero Aedes, especial o A. aegypti. Com falta medicamento principalmente vacinas reconhecidas pela OMS, exceto da amarela, controle populaci...

Transmission of Plasmodium falciparum and P. malariae was studied in a village in Burkina Faso. Consecutive captures of mosquitos were organized twice a month over a year and the species of the mosquitos identified. Also, the prevalences and densities of Plasmodium spp. were determined every 2 months in a sample of children who lived in the village. Anopheles gambiae, A. funestus, and A. nili w...

Introduction The first travel-associated cases of Zika virus infection in New York City (NYC) were identified in January 2016. Local transmission of Zika virus from imported cases is possible due to presence of Aedes albopictus mosquitos. Timely detection of local Zika virus transmission could inform public health interventions and mitigate additional spread of illness. Daily emergency departme...