National

• Mauritius: Malaria endemic since 1800s and in 1867 it killed 1/8 people
• 1948-51 led eradication campaign

  • spraying breeding sites and water sources with DDT (malarial insecticide) 


  SUCCESS:

  1. mortality rates dropped 6/1000 to 0.6/1000 by 1951.
  2. 1973 WHO "Malaria eliminated from Mauritius"
• 1975 Cyclone Gervaise reintroduced Malaria

  VECTOR: infected health worker

  New breeding sites due to stagnant water

  1982: Eradication Campaign

  Spraying, Predators to Larvae (fish) and Chloroquine (drug)

  screened 175k passengers/year

  serveilled symptomatic people for 4 months

  SUCCESS= only 1 case of infected visitor since 1997