Tsiamis Costas, Piperaki Evangelia Theophano, Tsakris Athanassios
Department of Microbiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece.
Infez Med. 2013 Mar;21(1):60-75.
In 1905, a group of eminent Greek physicians led by Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology Constantinos Savvas and the pediatrician Dr. Ioannis Kardamatis founded the Greek Anti-Malaria League. The League assumed a role that the State would not, and for the next 25 years organized the country's anti-malaria campaign. During its first steps, the Greek Anti-Malaria League adopted the principles of Professor Angelo Celli's Italian Anti-Malaria League. The League's accomplishments include a decrease in malarial prevalence, due to mass treatment with quinine, new legislation ensuring the provision of quinine, State monopoly and the collection of epidemiologic data. However, defeat in the Greek-Turkish War (1922) and the massive influx of one million Greek refugees that ensued, led to a change in malarial epidemiology. In 1928, following a visit to Italy, the Greek League adopted the organization and knowledge of the Italian Malaria Schools in Rome and in Nettuno, and this experience served as the basis of their proposal to the State for the development of the anti-malaria services infrastructure. The State adopted many of Professor Savvas' proposals and modified his plan according to Greek needs. The League's experience, accumulated during its 25 years of struggle against malaria, was its legacy to the campaigns that eventually accomplished the eradication of malaria from Greece after World War II.
1905年，由卫生与微生物学教授康斯坦丁诺斯·萨瓦斯和儿科医生约阿尼斯·卡尔达马蒂斯博士率领的一群杰出希腊医生创立了希腊抗疟联盟。该联盟承担了国家不会承担的角色，并在接下来的25年里组织了该国的抗疟运动。在其起步阶段，希腊抗疟联盟采纳了安杰洛·切利教授领导的意大利抗疟联盟的原则。该联盟的成就包括，通过奎宁大规模治疗、确保奎宁供应的新立法、国家垄断以及收集流行病学数据，疟疾流行率有所下降。然而，希腊-土耳其战争（1922年）的失败以及随之而来的100万希腊难民的大量涌入，导致了疟疾流行病学的变化。1928年，在访问意大利之后，希腊联盟采纳了罗马和内图诺的意大利疟疾防治学校的组织形式和知识，这一经验成为他们向国家提议发展抗疟服务基础设施的基础。国家采纳了萨瓦斯教授的许多提议，并根据希腊的需求对他的计划进行了修改。该联盟在与疟疾斗争的25年中积累的经验，是其留给二战后最终在希腊实现疟疾根除的运动的遗产。
