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Amani Research Centre, Tanga, Tanzania.
Children aged 1-10 in five villages were contacted fortnightly. Their axillary temperatures, reports of fevers and blood slides were taken. Following the introduction of permethrin impregnated nets into two estate villages the slide positivity for falciparum malaria declined markedly. In traditional villages the introduction of impregnated nets had less convincing effects than in the estate villages and DDT spraying had no perceptible effect on malaria. Over all villages there was a clear relationship between axillary temperature greater than 37.4 degrees C, reports of fever and high parasitaemia. We defined malaria fever in this way, and found in some cases significant reductions in occurrence of such fever following some time after introduction of permethrin impregnated nets. No such effects were found with lambdacyhalothrin nets or with DDT spraying.
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