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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 402-415Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.01.009
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- YERSIN project - Michelin Corporate Foundation
- ECOMORE project - L'Agence Francaise de Developpement
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1053338]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1053338] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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Unprecedented economic growth in Southeast Asia (SEA) has encouraged the expansion of rubber plantations. This land-use transformation is changing the risk of mosquito-borne diseases. Mature plantations provide ideal habitats for the mosquito vectors of malaria, dengue, and chikungunya. Migrant workers may introduce pathogens into plantation areas, most worryingly artemisininresistant malaria parasites. The close proximity of rubber plantations to natural forest also increases the threat from zoonoses, where new vector-borne pathogens spill over from wild animals into humans. There is therefore an urgent need to scale up vector control and access to health care for rubber workers. This requires an intersectoral approach with strong collaboration between the health sector, rubber industry, and local communities.
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