Wright J W
Bull World Health Organ. 1971;44(1-3):11-22.
For many years the World Health Organization has been engaged in a programme for the control of vector-borne diseases, and in 1960 established a programme for evaluating and testing new insecticides, the special objectives being to find new compounds that would overcome the problem of insecticide resistance and not lead to further contamination of the environment.This paper reviews the present status of control of some of the principal vector-borne diseases of man and describes the WHO programme for insecticide evaluation and testing and the results it has achieved.
多年来,世界卫生组织一直致力于控制病媒传播疾病的项目,并于1960年设立了一个评估和测试新型杀虫剂的项目,其特别目标是找到能够解决杀虫剂抗性问题且不会导致环境进一步污染的新化合物。本文综述了人类一些主要病媒传播疾病的控制现状,并介绍了世卫组织的杀虫剂评估和测试项目及其取得的成果。