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The Relationship of the Cotton Crop to Plague, and its Role as a Vehicle for Rats and Fleas in East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. Isgaer Roberts
J. Isgaer Roberts
Affiliation:
Medical Research Laboratory, Nairobi, Kenya
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Mombasa is the main port for the East African coast, handling all exports and imports for the two territories, Kenya and Uganda, which are incidentally the worst plague centres in the area. A fair amount of the Tanganyika and Belgian Congo produce also reaches this port. As Mombasa is the receiving centre for all the export trade of Kenya and Uganda, it might be expected that plague, if conveyable in any form or by any means, would appear regularly with the arrival of some of the main crops which are usually considered to be associated with the disease in the interior. Maize and cotton are generally supposed to be connected with the incidence of plague, and it is of particular interest to contrast briefly the figures for the incidence of the disease at the port within recent years and the periods of export of these crops.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , August 1935 , pp. 388 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1935

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