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Malaria Control and Discipline (Don't) 
III GENERAL CONTROL !MEASURES 
The cause of malaria, mode of transmission, life cycles, 
breeding habits and stages of development in the mosquito have all 
been discussed. You are now ready for the individual and environmen¬ 
tal measures of control. In brief, a vast amount of work resulted in 
a rather simple plan of control as follows: 
1. Destruction of mosquito breeding areas. 
2. Protection of individuals by mechanical and che¬ 
mical means. 
3. Education. 
Two things are essential for the perpetuation of malaria 
(1) individuals with malaria and (2) mosquitoes. It is obvious that with 
many hundreds of millions of cases of chronic malaria in the world segre¬ 
gation, as with tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, is imprac¬ 
tical. The most practical approach therefore is to destroy mosquito breed¬ 
ing areas, protect individuals from mosquitoes, and educate them in the 
necessity for malaria discipline. 
IV 
miMU DISCIPLINE 
Discipline is a constant type of behavior that through 
training and repetition becomes automatic or instinctive. In the 
training film, "Malaria Discipline", you saw two individuals, both 
tired and sleepy, routed out in the middle of the night by a Jap air 
raid. One of the men through prop er malaria discioline grabbed his 
mosquito repellent as he dashed for a fox hole. It seemed insignifi- 
cant in the face of being blown to bits, but the act was instinctive 
and automatic. The other man, without proper discipline, failed to 
take his repellent with him and was bitten by a mosquito. Be survived 
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the bombing and even the bailout from having his plane shot out from 
under, but he didd from malaria or rather, from, the lack of malaria 
discipline. 
Malaria discipline is defined as a state of orderly and 
effective conduct or action by all ranks and service in respect to 
malaria control. Malaria discipline means that screens, bed nets, re¬ 
pellents, and mosquito sprays are properly used, sleeves are rolled 
down at night, suppressive drugs are taken as directed, and men are 
careful to protect themselves from the malaria mosquito as from any 
other enemy. ' ' 
The importance of malaria discipline increases as troops 
move forward from fixed installations and approach combat conditions. 
If malaria prevention in forward areas is to be successful, the indi¬ 
vidual soldier must be disciplined in the necessity for diligent pro¬ 
tection of his person against the disease-carrying mosouito. He must 
thoroughly understand what he himself can do to avoid bites of mos¬ 
quitoes. Moreover, he must want to apply these measures in rigorous 
and diligent fashion. Unless he is convinced of the importance of avoid¬ 
ing infection and remaining effective as long as possible, his efforts 
may not be pushed with the zeal which effective control demands. 
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