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Past and Present of Tropical Diseases in the Amazon River

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The Amazon River was and is the most important “living vein” in South America that offers life for animals and humans but also endangers their health. Entering this “hell” often led to death in former centuries due to vector-transmitted diseases, which even today have to be constantly controlled.

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Notes

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    The Amazonian eyebrow is the high forest, corresponding to the eastern area of the Andean Mountain Range in Perú, where the thickness of its forests and the rivers that make it up are part of the Amazon basin.

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    The appropriation of the land by the European colonisers generated dissimilar ways of organising the native populations; the mitayos were natives who own lands and had forms of cultivation but had to pay a tax on their production to the Spanish lords.

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Financial support was provided by the Research Committee of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Los Andes.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, University of los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

    Felipe Guhl Nannetti

  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

    Juan F. Guhl Samudio

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Guhl Nannetti, F., Guhl Samudio, J.F. (2019). Past and Present of Tropical Diseases in the Amazon River. In: Mehlhorn, H., Klimpel, S. (eds) Parasite and Disease Spread by Major Rivers on Earth. Parasitology Research Monographs, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29061-0_14

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