Could malaria re-emerge in Romania?

Nicolescu, Gabriela; Purcarea-Ciulacu, V.; Vladimirescu, A.; Dumitrescu, G.; Saizu, D.; Savin, E.; Sandric, I.; Mihai, Florin‐Constantin

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2016.02.436

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“…The patients were infected locally as they have no travelling history to the outside (Ivanescu et al 2016). In the same year, in Romania, malaria was also diagnosed but fortunately, the disease was imported with travellers from Italy (Neghina et al 2011;Nicolescu et al 2016). However, and although most countries in Europe are malaria-free since decades, the Anopheles vector continued to live and exist there.…”

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Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases

El-Sayed

Kamel

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Global warming and the associated climate changes are predictable. They are enhanced by burning of fossil fuels and the emission of huge amounts of CO 2 gas which resulted in greenhouse effect. It is expected that the average global temperature will increase with 2-5°C in the next decades. As a result, the earth will exhibit marked climatic changes characterized by extremer weather events in the coming decades, such as the increase in temperature, rainfall, summertime, droughts, more frequent and stronger tornadoes and hurricanes. Epidemiological disease cycle includes host, pathogen and in certain cases intermediate host/vector. A complex mixture of various environmental conditions (e.g. temperature and humidity) determines the suitable habitat/ecological niche for every vector host. The availability of suitable vectors is a precondition for the emergence of vector-borne pathogens. Climate changes and global warming will have catastrophic effects on human, animal and environmental ecosystems. Pathogens, especially neglected tropical disease agents, are expected to emerge and re-emerge in several countries including Europe and North America. The lives of millions of people especially in developing countries will be at risk in direct and indirect ways. In the present review, the role of climate changes in the spread of infectious agents and their vectors is discussed. Examples of the major emerging viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases are also summarized.

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Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases

El-Sayed

Kamel

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…The presence of the Anopheles vector, belonging to the Anopheles maculipennis complex, and the existence of the malaria agent in nature with imported malaria cases, as well as the increase in temperatures, are favourable factors for the reemergence of malaria in Romania [13, 14]. All cases of malaria diagnosed in Romania have been “imported,” increasing continuously because of the development of tourism and the labour market in malaria-endemic areas [15–17].…”

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Climate Change Is Increasing the Risk of the Reemergence of Malaria in Romania

Ivanescu

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Florescu

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BioMed Research International

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The climatic modifications lead to global warming; favouring the risk of the appearance and development of diseases are considered until now tropical diseases. Another important factor is the workers' immigration, the economic crisis favouring the passive transmission of new species of culicidae from different areas. Malaria is the disease with the widest distribution in the globe. Millions of people are infected every year in Africa, India, South-East Asia, Middle East, and Central and South America, with more than 41% of the global population under the risk of infestation with malaria. The increase of the number of local cases reported in 2007–2011 indicates that the conditions can favour the high local transmission in the affected areas. In the situation presented, the establishment of the level of risk concerning the reemergence of malaria in Romania becomes a priority.

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Could malaria re-emerge in Romania?

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Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases

Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases

Climate Change Is Increasing the Risk of the Reemergence of Malaria in Romania

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