COMMUNICABLE DISEASE OF NORTH EAST INDIA WITH EMPHASIS ON MALARIA: STUDY FOR RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Malaria is known as the disease of “high feverâ€. It is caused by the infection known as malaria Par parasite, which is transmitted from a person suffering from malaria to another healthy person by Anopheles mosquito. The infection occurs following a bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito, which contains malaria parasites in its salivary glands and the infected person may suffer from Malaria Within 14-21 days. However, One malaria patient cases through anopheles mosquitoes.

Due to its wide distribution, especially in rural areas of the NE Region, malaria is one of the important factors responsible for slow rate of agricultural, industrial and economic growth in this reason. Before our Independence, a pre-DDT era, malaria was rampant in every part of India. The economic losses due to man-days last to malaria were estimated to be about Rs.10 billion per year in 1935. According to an estimation made by the Govt. of India in 1953, there was and annual incidence of 75 million cases of malaria, resulting in 8 lakh deaths per year, in the early fifties. Soon after the Second World War, the well known insecticide DDT was introduce in public health service for the control of malaria.

Pilot project in different parts of rural Indian showed highly successful results of the application of DDT. This opened a new chapter in the field of malaria. This paper would be discussed, use of Biocides in Malaria control and however, they should not be used for level control in portable water.