Crónicas de arroz, mosquitos y paludismo en España: el caso de la provincia de Valencia (s. XVIII-XX)

Rubén Bueno Marí; Ricardo Jiménez Peydró

doi:10.3989/hispania.2010.v70.i236.329

Chronicles of rice, mosquitoes and malaria in Spain: the case of the province of Valencia (18th-20th centuries)

Authors

Rubén Bueno Marí Laboratorio de Entomología y Control de Plagas del Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva de la Universitat de València
Ricardo Jiménez Peydró Laboratorio de Entomología y Control de Plagas del Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva de la Universitat de València

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.2010.v70.i236.329

Keywords:

Historical epidemiology, Medicine history, Eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty centuries, Malaria, Rice, Mosquitoes, Anopheles, Valencia

Abstract

This study analyzes the situation of the rice fields in the Valencia province (Eastern Spain) during the centuries XVIII-XX. This area, together with the region of Campo Arañuelo (Western Spain), is one of the territories with highest malaria prevalence during the Spain's Modern History. Medical, demographic, social, economic and legal issues related with the problematic of the rice during this epoch are also discussed. Furthermore, this article provides information about the supposed transmission mechanisms of the disease, as well as the fight against it through chemotherapeutic and environmental sanitation techniques.

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2010-12-30

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Bueno Marí, R., & Jiménez Peydró, R. (2010). Chronicles of rice, mosquitoes and malaria in Spain: the case of the province of Valencia (18th-20th centuries). Hispania, 70(236), 687–708. https://doi.org/10.3989/hispania.2010.v70.i236.329

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Vol. 70 No. 236 (2010)

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Studies

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