1.
GV Ghor Mazra village.
6 ft

2.
SCU Labourers being issued with anti-malaria tablets.
12 ft

3.
LV Larvacidal oil being poured from drum.
18 ft

4.
SV Pan .. Labourers spraying swamp with larvacidal oil.
25 ft

5.
LV Water being checked after spraying.
30 ft

6.
CU Ditto.
40 ft

7.
SV Canals being cut in swamp to drain water into the dead sea.
49 ft

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SV DDT being issued and mixed for spraying.
55 ft

9.
CU DDT being poured into sprays.
62 ft

10.
SV Int Wall of house being sprayed with DDT.
74 ft

11.
GV Tents being sprayed with DDT.
80 ft

12.
CU Spraying in progress.
86 ft

13.
GV Int Children at village school.
92 ft

14.
SCU Doctor taking blood sample from boy's finger.
101 ft

15.
SV Doctor filing blood sample.
108 ft

16.
GV Children waiting to have blood samples taken.
113 ft



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Background: Visnews cameras went to Ghor Mazra village, south Amman Feb 21 to film the latest prophylactic measures now being initiated against malaria in Jordan.

Closely supervised by medical authorities from the World Health Organization, the local health workers are distributing tablets to the labourers and organizing the spraying of the malaria-infested swamps with larva-killing oil.

Also being undertaken is the mass drainage of this swampy area - and canals are being cleared to allow the water to drain into the Dead Sea.

Despite some reports that the use of DDT may be harmful as is increases the resistance of malaria larvae to attack by insecticides -- DDT is being mixed with paraffin for spraying into and around houses and tents.

Prophylactic measures are not restricted to insecticides. Children in local village schools are having blood tests to assess the amount of incipient diseases in the local population.