BROMELIAD MALARIA — SMITH 



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covered with dense forest with a profusion of bromeliads teeming 

 with mosquitoes. As a consequence, malaria has been entrenched in 

 the state and at intervals has reached great proportions. 



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Figure 2. — Distribution of bromeliad malaria in southern Brazil. (After Pinotti, Rachou, 



and Ferreira.) 



From the time of Lutz there has been a steady growth in malarial 

 research in Brazil, and there have been some notable victories in its 

 conquest such as the complete eradication of Anopheles gambiae after 

 its accidental introduction from Africa led to a severe epidemic in 

 the northeast. In 1941 the Brazilian Government raised the fight 



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