Report of medically important pests in disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake and relating documents on pest control

A booklet “Report of medically important pests in disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake and relating documents on pest control” was published on 15 March 2012 as an additional report of a Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases from The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (H21-Shinko-Ippan-005) to record medical pest problems appeared in the disaster areas and pest control activities practiced against the problems.

The booklet includes Special issues “Occurrence of medically and veterinary important pests in disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011” appeared in Medical Entomology and Zoology Vol 63(1) in March 2012. The following documents are also included for reference; a report on mosquito surveillance in northern Fukushima Prefecture, a reprint of paper on ecology of Culex inatomii, brief notes on medically important flies and mosquitoes found abundant in disaster areas and their control, a leaflet for personal protection against entering flies and mosquitoes in temporary dwellings, official documents on pest control in disaster areas.（2012-04-06）

Full text pdf of each paper and documents and a pdf of the whole booklet are opened and available at this site.

A list of pdf 　Preface by Mutsuo Kobayashi 　Tsuda et al. : After-effects of Tsunami on distribution and abundance of mosquitoes in rice-field areas I Miyagi Prefecture, Japan in 2011. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 21-30. 　Watanabe et al. : Occurrence of vector mosquitoes at Tsunami disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 31-43. (In Japanese with English abstract, Figures and Tables) 　Yabe and Ishikawa : Occurrence of rats in the Tsunami disaster region of east Japan. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 45-48. (In Japanese with English abstract and Figures) 　Kobayashi et al. : Outbreak of mosquito larvae in the urban district attacked by Tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 49-54. (In Japanese with English abstract, Figures and Tables) 　Hashimoto et al. : Fly outbreaks in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 55-58. (In Japanese with English abstract, Figures and Tables) 　Kasai and Kobayashi : Picture archives of the outbreak of medically important pest insects in Tsunami affected areas in Tohoku District, Japan. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 59-69. (In Japanese with English abstract and Figures) 　Tabaru et al. : Outbreak of blow flies in the Tsunami affected areas and their control. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 71-83. (In Japanese with English abstract, Figures and Tables) 　Hayashi et al. : Mass occurrence of flies and seasonal changes in their species composition n the Tsunami disaster region after 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake. Medical Entomology and Zoology 63: 85-89. (In Japanese with English abstract, Figures and Tables) 　Tsuda : Results of vector mosquito survey in disaster area of the Great East Japan Earthquake: area comparisons between southern Miyagi.Prefecture and northern Fukushima Prefecture (In Japanese) 　Katano et al. : Experimental studies on the ecology of Culex inatomii (Diptera: Culicidae) : Effects of salinity and temperature on larval development and reproduction of populations during the cool season. Medical Entomology and Zoology 61: 327-333.. (In Japanese with English abstract, Figures and Tables) 　A brief notes on medically important insects found abundant in disaster areas. 1. mosquitoes 　A brief notes on medically important insects found abundant in disaster areas. 2. flies 　Notes on the control of medically important flies and mosquitoes found abundant in disaster areas. 　a leaflet for personal protection against entering flies and mosquitoes in temporary dwellings. 　Official documents on pest control in disaster areas.