From miasmas to malaria.www. Continuities and innovation in the fight against malaria

Authors

  • Antonio Buj Buj

Keywords:

malaria, plasmodia, anopheles mosquitoes, geography, miasmas, microbiology, new technologies, Internet

Abstract

Malaria is still nowadays one of the main sanitary problems of our planet. Every year it causes the death of more than a million people, being children under five the biggest group. The aim of this report is to study the problem under a historical perspective, through an analysis of not only the tensions that the modern measures to fight the disease have generated in the affected societies, but also the role of the latest technologies to solve this millennial problem.

Published

2007-05-13