Vector control: insecticide spraying

The inside of this tent in a refugee camp near Kabul, central Afghanistan is to be sprayed with residual insecticide. Note the mask and glasses protecting the sprayman's face. The refugee camp has been set up in an area endemic for cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania tropica. The vector Phlebotomus sergenti is highly anthropophilic, endophagic (feeding indoors) and endophilic. It is therefore possible to control this vector with residual spraying.