More crops, more disease?
The intensity of disease transmission by insect vectors may be influenced by developments in agriculture and forestry. The author illustrates what can happen with special reference to projects in Thailand and Ethiopia which increased the incidence of malaria, and to the introduction of a new variety of coffee in Colombia, as a result of which the incidence of leishmaniasis among plantation workers decreased. Development programmes need to take predictable disease outcomes fully into account.
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Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
D000383:Agriculture; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003105:Colombia; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005002:Ethiopia; D016468:Forestry; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007303:Insect Vectors; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D013785:Thailand