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- Title
OPASNOST OD PARAZITSKIH ZOONOZA U POVEZANOSTI SA POSLJEDNJIM VALOM MIGRANATA (1) - ŠISTOSOMOZA.
- Authors
Štimac, Iva; Martinković, Franjo
- Abstract
Given the risk of the breakouts of many diseases during migration and stay in the host countries, timely and appropriate addresing of the refugees' and migrants' healthcare is deemed necesarry, particularly given the size of the migrating population worldwide. Despite the populations at risk who originate from the regions affected by endemic diseases, it is not the rule for them to either carry or transmit diseases to the local or transitional population. Schistosomiasis is an endemic disease in the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Iraq. It is autochtonous parasitic zoonosis in an acute or chronic form, caused by parasitic fluke worms of Schistosoma spp. Schistosomiasis is considered a neglected disease of poverty. Poor sanitary conditions in the refugee camps are risky for repeated breakouts of disease. A large migrant population from the aforementioned republics are settled in the Middle East and North Africa - MENA, where schistosomiasis still persists and spreads under certain conditions. For the spread, cohabitate must the carriers (infected humans), transmitters (some freshwater snails) and reservoirs (various animals infected). In Europe, the largest migrant populations can be found in Germany and Sweden. The outbreak of schistosomiasis in Europe has been documented in Corsica, France. Studies demonstrated that schistosoma could spread and persist in moderate climates of France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece, while the European spread northward is currently limited by the adaption of transmitters to low temperatures, but enabled via infected tourists, migrants and refugees, such as was the case in Romania and Hungary.
- Subjects
TREMATODA; FRESHWATER snails; POOR people; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Veterinaria, 2021, Vol 70, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0372-6827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51607/22331360.2021.70.1.109