PMID: 11640081Jan 1, 1989Paper

Diffusion/spreading of malaria in the Apuo-Lunensis region (northwest of Tuscany)

Medicina nei secoli
L Laquidara

Abstract

Evidence of malaria fevers in the antiquity may be found in the writings of Herodotus (regarding the Nilo Valley) or in Latin authors (regarding the south land of Rome); successive reclaiming of lands by the Roman Empire diminished the incidence of malaria, but in the medieval time the absence of care regarding drainage of swampi plains caused the outbreak of the disease. In the XIX century lands were claimed, but very slowly for example in the Apuo-Lunensis region, so that experts of public health were often consulted by local governments. District physicians affirmed the origin of malaria from the local environment, and the local Governor De Volo drained the land about the Magliano river by filling of marshes, malaria was strongly reduced, coming at the end of the century for few years due to breaking of banks of the Frigido river.

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