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When Worlds Collide #104: Dengue Control sans Chemicals?

Posted on 25 April 2014 by Nalaka Gunawardene

Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 25 April 2014 Last week, discussing dengue fever as a silent disaster, I wrote: “For now, there is no specific antiviral drug or effective vaccine against dengue. … Continue reading →

Posted in Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Public health, Public policy, Sri Lanka, Urban issues, Waste, Waste Management, Water | Tagged Aedes aegypti, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, community participation, dengue, Dengue fever, Dengue Free Sri Lanka, dengue virus, Dr A R Wickremasinghe, Dr Michael Nathan, Dr Wimal Abeyewickreme, environmental sanitation, Gampaha district, IDRC, India, Indonesia, J Sommerfeld, K Karunatilake, Kroeger Axel, less insecticides, Myanmar, national mosquito control week, Pathogens and Global Health December 2012, Philippines, public health, silent disaster, socio-cultural factors, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Sri Lanka, Successful dengue control programmes, Thailand, University of Kelaniya’s Faculty of Medicine, Waste management, WHO, World Health Organisation | 1 Comment
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