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The longest combat against the most dreadful enemy of the history of Sri Lanka

The battle against malaria vector

Disclosure of the unknown enemy

"The mysterious fever" battered the civilization of the Island nation for centuries was still a "wild fever" at the beginning of last century, for which nobody knew the reason behind, until the colonial masters had the wisdom of revealing it. Mannar was the historical site which broke through the transmitter of malaria in the past century, and a century later, it was the same site from where another major discovery done in 2016 with regarding malaria

In 1913 Lt Colonel S.p.James and Dr S T. Gunasekara divulged A. culicifasis as the vector transmitting malaria in Thalaimannar and incriminated as the vector for malaia. Further from 1921 to 1926 it was unearthed the

• Distribution of endemic malaria
• Seasonality incidence of malaria
• Presence of different parasites in the country

The launch of the battle: Initial control measures; embryonic but environmental friendly

Organized control activities were commenced with the establishment of Anti Malaria Campaign (AMC) center at Kurunegala town in 1911. Later, AMC centers were established in Mahara prison, Anuradhapura (1922), Trincomalee (1923), Kurunegala and Chilaw. "Carters report" published in 1927 states that anti mosquito measures done at Mahara prison, Anuradhapura and Trincomalee were confined to filling, draining, oiling, and jungle clearing. In Anuradhapura, control measure was began in experimental basis to target anopheline breeding sites. In 1925, a reconstruction of Halpan ela, a stream running through Anuraghepura town was done targeting malaria control.