Challenges and opportunities in controlling mosquito-borne infections

Neil M. Ferguson ()
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Neil M. Ferguson: Imperial College London

Nature, 2018, vol. 559, issue 7715, 490-497

Abstract: Abstract Mosquito-borne diseases remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality across the tropical regions. Despite much progress in the control of malaria, malaria-associated morbidity remains high, whereas arboviruses—most notably dengue—are responsible for a rising burden of disease, even in middle-income countries that have almost completely eliminated malaria. Here I discuss how new interventions offer the promise of considerable future reductions in disease burden. However, I emphasize that intervention programmes need to be underpinned by rigorous trials and quantitative epidemiological analyses. Such analyses suggest that the long-term goal of elimination is more feasible for dengue than for malaria, even if malaria elimination would offer greater overall health benefit to the public.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0318-5

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