Malaria in Italy
Published by AWills January 7th, 2007 in News, Neglected DiseasesDiseases normally thought to be exclusively problems of the developing world, such as malaria, tick-borne encephalitis, and visceral leishmaniasis, have been appearing with greater frequency in Italy. Over the past 20 years, the average temperature has crept up 0.7°C, changing the environmental landscape and the habitats of many vectors of disease. Francesco Ferrante, Legambiente’s director general, describes the situation:
Illnesses are arriving from Africa, while tropical animals and plants are attacking our biodiversity, droughts and flooding are on the rise, and semi-desert areas are appearing.
It appears as if neglected tropical disease research may now have an advocate in the developed world.
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