June 2016
Malaria epidemics in Europe after the First World War: the early stages of an international approach to the control of the disease, analyzes the anti-malaria campaign and internacional collaborations to combat the illness .
The frequency and severity of outbreaks of malaria in Europe declined gradually over the 50 years preceding WWI. However, during and after the war, the number of cases increased substantially and peaked in 1922-1924.
This prompted the Hygiene Commission of the League of Nations to establish a Malaria Commission in 1923 to define the most efficient anti-malaria procedures.
Additionally, between 1924 and 1930 there were several international meetings and collaborations concerning malaria, which involved the main institutes of parasitology and the Rockefeller Foundation.
To sum up, the authors Gabriel Gachelin (Université Paris 7 ) and Annick Opinel (Institut Pasteur, Paris) analyze the Commission reports, the guidelines for anti-malaria campaigns and the scientific programs which came out of these meetings and collaborations. They, then, conclude that these initiatives were the first efforts towards an international approach to the control of the disease.
Read more about Malaria in HCS-Manguinhos:
Estrada Orrego, Victoria and Márquez Valderrama, Jorge. Etiología parasitaria y obstáculos epistemológicos: el caso de la malaria en Colombia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970
Cueto, Marcos. La “cultura de la sobrevivencia” y la salud pública internacional en América Latina: la Guerra Fría y la erradicación de enfermedades a mediados del siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.255-273. ISSN 0104-5970
Lima, Nísia Trindade and Botelho, André. Malária como doença e perspectiva cultural nas viagens de Carlos Chagas e Mário de Andrade à Amazônia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2013, vol.20, no.3, p.745-763. ISSN 0104-5970
Nussenzweig, Ruth Sonntag. Breakthroughs towards a malaria vaccine. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.559-564. ISSN 0104-5970
Estrada Orrego, Victoria and Márquez Valderrama, Jorge. Etiología parasitaria y obstáculos epistemológicos: el caso de la malaria en Colombia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970
Mónica García, Claudia. Las ‘fiebres del Magdalena’: medicina y sociedad en la construcción de una noción médica colombiana, 1859-1886. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.63-89. ISSN 0104-5970.
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