Transmission Risk from Imported Plasmodium vivax Malaria in the China-Myanmar Border Region

Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Oct;21(10):1861-4. doi: 10.3201/eid2110.150679.

Abstract

Malaria importation and local vector susceptibility to imported Plasmodium vivax infection are a continuing risk along the China-Myanmar border. Malaria transmission has been prevented in 3 border villages in Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China, by use of active fever surveillance, integrated vector control measures, and intensified surveillance and response.

Keywords: Anopheles sinensis; China–Myanmar border; Plasmodium vivax; imported malaria; malaria; parasites; receptivity; secondary infection; vector-borne infections; vulnerability.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Arthropod Vectors / pathogenicity
  • Arthropod Vectors / virology
  • China / epidemiology
  • Disease Susceptibility
  • Fever / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Malaria / epidemiology*
  • Malaria / therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mosquito Control / methods
  • Myanmar / epidemiology
  • Plasmodium vivax / pathogenicity*
  • Population Surveillance / methods
  • Risk