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As the 20th Century draws to a close about 6 billion people live in the world. Over 40% inhabit areas, mostly in the tropics, where they were at risk to malaria, a mosquitoborne disease. About 120 million new clinical cases of malaria occur each year, with over 1 million deaths among young children in Africa alone. About 300 million people probably are infected with the malarial parasite at any given time (World Health Organization 1990). In every year for the past 2 decades there has been an epidemic of dengue, another mosquitoborne disease, in some part of the world, with each epidemic resulting in thousands of cases, many of them fatal in children (Fig. 1.1). Arthropods continually attack cattle, a primary source of food for many people of the world.
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Eldridge, B.F., Edman, J.D. (2000). Introduction to Medical Entomology. In: Eldridge, B.F., Edman, J.D. (eds) Medical Entomology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6472-6_1
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