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Disease Vector Risk Assessment Profiles From the Navy

This zip file is 1.8 meg. It contains 147 Word files that total 7 meg when unzipped.

>>> Vector Risk Assessment Profiles (VECTRAPs) are produced by the Navy Disease Vector Ecology and Control Center, which explains:

VECTRAPs are country-specific vector-borne disease risk profiles. They provide information on which diseases are present in each nation and what risks are associated with deployment to them. Vector control recommendations are provided as well as information on personal protection measures. [more info]

For some reason, the Navy doesn't make these reports available online, instead requiring that the profiles of specific countries be requested from them. Utilizing the Freedom of Information Act, frequent Memory Hole contributor Michael Ravnitzky requested all of them. He received 147 (the Navy's VECTRAP page says that they cover "over two hundred countries").

The profiles are in the zip file above. They include Afghanistan, Cuba, France, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Libya, Rwanda, the UK, the former Soviet Union, and 136 others.

Technical note: The profiles were released in Word format by the Navy Environmental Health Center on 03 March 2005 in response to FOIA request FA/000257, filed by Michael Ravnitzky on 01 Feb 2005.

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