Prevention and control of vector-borne diseases reaches back over 100 years to the efforts of Smith, Ross, and Reed. In a world of increasing specialization, current vector control programs can get isolated from their major purpose, which is medical. Not surprisingly, medical systems have much to offer a combined vector and disease prevention program. Medical entomologists can take advantage of the medical resources, especially for surveillance and monitoring. Three recent, real-world examples of exercising "Integrated Disease Managment" are presented from southern Asia. Entomology and medicine worked together successfully to prevent typhus, leishmaniasis, and malaria. Health care providers were essential to the process of educating administrators and customers, detecting population-based signs for the presence of illness, and providing real back-up in case prevention failed.
Species 1: Phthiraptera Anopluridae Pediculus humanus (body louse)
Species 2: Diptera Psychodidae Phlebotomus papatasi
Species 3: Diptera Culicidae Anopheles
Keywords: disease, prevention
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