[Malaria in Bologna in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: environment and the role of human intervention]
The authors, after an excursus on the events that have characterised the territorial attitude in the plain to the north of Bologna, emphasising the strong influence that the work of man has developed (development of the rice growing, presence of the residues for hemp's processing, construction of military defenses, etc.) on the deterioration of this territory, they analyse the characteristics of the malarial endemic that affected the area of Bologna in the XVIII and XIX century. After the specification of the part that the plentiful atmospheric precipitations of the end of XIX century played, they describe the course of the malarial epidemic which affected Bologna between 1899 and 1901. By using a Geographic information System (G.I.S) they state in which places the malaria affected and they point out its epidemiological characteristics.
Sabbatani
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Unita Operativa di Malattie Infettive, Ospedale Maggiore di Bologna, Bologna.
Sandri
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La malaria a Bologna fra XVIII e XIX secolo. Vicende ambientali e ruolo dell'intervento umano.