dc.creator | Sousa Martín, Arturo | |
dc.creator | Andrade, Fátima | |
dc.creator | Félix, Alfredo | |
dc.creator | Jurado Doña, Vicente | |
dc.creator | León Botubol, Alejandra | |
dc.creator | García Murillo, Pablo | |
dc.creator | García Barrón, Leoncio | |
dc.creator | Morales González, Julia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-10T10:17:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-10T10:17:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0213-8409 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/34460 | |
dc.description.abstract | Malaria is a parasitic disease that is currently affecting a good number of countries with approximately one million deaths
per year. Traditionally, this pathology has been related to wetlands and other unhealthy water bodies. It disappeared from
most of Western Europe after the Second World War; however, its eradication from Spain took place later. In fact, the WHO
didn’t of cially declare malaria in Spain eradicated until 1964, after a gradual controlled process of the illness, through the
improvement of health and hygienic conditions in the country, and the ght against the vectors, the parasite, and its reservoirs.
In 1913, the Spanish regions with the largest number of municipalities with autochthonous malaria were, precisely, those containing
larger areas covered by unhealthy water bodies (except for Extremadura). Among them, Western Andalusia outstood
as the main region with the largest area of unhealthy malaria focuses and with high mortality and morbidity rates. Within
Western Andalusia, Huelva —and especially its coastal areas— has been, for centuries, one of the provinces with greater
endemicity.
After the Spanish Civil War a process of reforestation with fast-growing species took place in the Coastal Aeolian Sheet of
the Province of Huelva, which led to an 88% reduction of the surface covered by ponds in this territory. These lagoons had
started a natural regression process by the end of the XIXth Century related to the post-Little Ice Age warming in Andalusia.
The parallel evolution of malaria patients and the regression process experienced by these wetlands for the above mentioned
reasons have had a determinant in uence in the eradication of the disease. All of this leads us to consider the relevant role of
wetlands when studying the future risk of malaria reemergence in SW Spain. | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Asociación Española de Limnología | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Limnetica, 28 (2), 283-300 | es |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Wetlands | es |
dc.subject | malaria | es |
dc.subject | peat ponds | es |
dc.subject | climate change | es |
dc.subject | Doñana | es |
dc.subject | Huelva | es |
dc.subject | SW Spain | es |
dc.title | Historical importance of wetlands in malaria transmission in southwest of Spain. | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Aplicada II | |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://www.limnetica.com/Limnetica/limne28b/L28b283_wetlands_malaria_transmission_Spain.pdf | es |
dc.identifier.idus | https://idus.us.es/xmlui/handle/11441/34460 | |