File:Vector Control.jpg

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This 1920s photograph, taken somewhere in the southern United States, showed workers practicing “vector control” by digging a drainage ditch, in order to help disperse standing water that was acting as a popular breeding ground for a population of Anopheles mosquitoes, a well known vector for the parasitic disease, malaria.

Vector control aims to decrease contacts between humans and vectors of human disease. Control of mosquitoes may prevent malaria as well as several other mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus (WNV), St. Louise encephalitis (SLE), and Dengue fever.
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This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #7383.

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1920s picture showing workers diging a vector control ditch to disperse standing water where mosquitos spawn

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Category:20th-century men of the United States Category:African American men Category:Black and white photographs of men at work Category:Black and white photographs of the United States in the 1920s Category:CC-PD-Mark Category:Digging Category:Drainage canals in the United States Category:Images from the CDC Public Health Image Library Category:Men at work in the 1920s Category:Men at work in the United States Category:Men wearing rubber boots Category:Mosquito control Category:PD US Government Category:People of the United States in the 1920s Category:People with shovels