Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Malaria Branch, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, USA.
Malar J. 2013 Aug 30;12:303. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-303.
Malaria has been part of Peruvian life since at least the 1500s. While Peru gave the world quinine, one of the first treatments for malaria, its history is pockmarked with endemic malaria and occasional epidemics. In this review, major increases in Peruvian malaria incidence over the past hundred years are described, as well as the human factors that have facilitated these events, and concerted private and governmental efforts to control malaria. Political support for malaria control has varied and unexpected events like vector and parasite resistance have adversely impacted morbidity and mortality. Though the ready availability of novel insecticides like DDT and efficacious medications reduced malaria to very low levels for a decade after the post eradication era, malaria reemerged as an important modern day challenge to Peruvian public health. Its reemergence sparked collaboration between domestic and international partners towards the elimination of malaria in Peru.
疟疾自 16 世纪以来一直是秘鲁生活的一部分。秘鲁虽然为世界提供了奎宁（治疗疟疾的第一种药物之一），但它的历史却充斥着地方性疟疾和偶发性的疟疾流行。在这篇综述中，描述了过去一百年秘鲁疟疾发病率的大幅上升，以及促进这些事件发生的人为因素，以及为控制疟疾而进行的私人和政府的协同努力。对疟疾控制的政治支持一直存在变化，而像蚊子和寄生虫耐药性等意外事件对发病率和死亡率产生了不利影响。尽管新型杀虫剂如滴滴涕和有效药物的广泛使用，使疟疾在消灭后时代的十年内降至非常低的水平，但疟疾再次成为秘鲁公共卫生的一个重要现代挑战。它的再次出现促使国内和国际合作伙伴之间展开合作，以在秘鲁消除疟疾。
