Communicable and Vector-Borne Diseases II: Malaria, Filariasis, Yellow Fever, Trypanosomiasis, Schistosomiasis and Leishmaniasis

The second vector-borne disease module, starting with what a vector is, mechanical and biological transmission, the methods of vector and pest control and the body's immune defences, then the disease transmission cycle and the principles of communicable disease control. Each disease is taken in turn: malaria with its human and mosquito cycles, clinical features, complications and chemoprophylaxis; lymphatic filariasis and its DEC management; yellow fever, trypanosomiasis, schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis with their distribution across Kenya. The closing sections cover plague, louse-borne and tick-borne relapsing fever, onchocerciasis, loiasis, dracunculiasis and typhus with their treatment and prevention.