{"id":2469,"date":"2014-12-24T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2014-12-24T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T20:20:35","slug":"the-unexpected-adversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/the-unexpected-adversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The unexpected adversary – Malaria\u2019s contribution to World War One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anopheles maculipennis, vector of Malaria. Photo: \u00a0Wikipedia.<\/p><\/div>\n

The latest issues of \u00a0Malaria Journal<\/em>\u00a0features an article by Bernard Brabin, researcher at the\u00a0Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and at the\u00a0Global Child Health Group in Amsterdam, \u00a0about the impact of Malaria on the allied and axis military\u00a0of the Word War One.\u00a0Malaria in the First World War was an unexpected adversary. In 1914, the scientific\u00a0community had access to new knowledge on transmission of malaria parasites and their\u00a0control, but the military were unprepared, and underestimated the nature, magnitude and\u00a0dispersion of this enemy.<\/p>\n

Brabin\u00a0contextualizes the challenge posed by malaria, because although data exist\u00a0across historical, medical and military documents, descriptions are fragmented, often\u00a0addressing context specific issues. \u00a0According to the article,\u00a0at least 1.5\u00a0million soldiers were infected, with case fatality ranging from 0.2 -5.0%. As more countries\u00a0became engaged in the War, the problem grew in size, leading to major epidemics in\u00a0Macedonia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Italy. Trans-continental passages of parasites and\u00a0human reservoirs of infection created ideal circumstances for parasite evolution.<\/p>\n

Read the full article:
\nBrabin, Bernard. “Malaria’s Contribution to World War One – the unexpected adversary<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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See more articles about Malaria in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n

Gachelin, Gabriel and Opinel, Annick\u00a0Malaria epidemics in Europe after the First World War<\/b>:\u00a0the early stages of an international approach to the control of the disease<\/b><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.431-470. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n

Estrada Orrego, Victoria and M\u00e1rquez Valderrama, Jorge.\u00a0<\/span>Etiolog\u00eda parasitaria y obst\u00e1culos epistemol\u00f3gicos<\/b>:\u00a0el caso de la malaria en Colombia<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970<\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00f3nica Garc\u00eda, Claudia.\u00a0Las ‘fiebres del Magdalena’<\/b>:medicina y sociedad en la construcci\u00f3n de una noci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica colombiana, 1859-1886<\/b><\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.63-89. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n

Nussenzweig, Ruth Sonntag.\u00a0Breakthroughs towards a malaria vaccine<\/b><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.559-564. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n

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