Malaria surveillance during the late-malaria eradication stage in TianDeng County in Guangxi(1995-2008)

Objective To understand the malaria situation of the floating population in this county after basic eliminating malaria in 1994.Methods The malaria monitoring data of the overseas-returned and migrant workers in this county from 1995 to 2008 were collected.Excel statistical software was used for statistical analysis.Results During the past 14 years,116 malaria cases were reported among 170945 examiners.Malaria-infected cases from Hainan,were 6.89%,from Burma,14.66%,10.35% from Guangdong,5.17% from Yunnan,and both Plasmodium falciparum malaria and mixed infection were found.Conclusion Malaria patients were not found in this county in the past 14 years.Malaria infection occurred mainly in the floating population,as well as from those returned from the Southeast Asian countries.In addition,so far,secondary malaria patient was not found in this county.