Analysis of the causes of spawning of large-scale severe malarial epidemics and their rapid total extinction in western Provence historically a highly endemic region of France (1745–1850)

摘要

BackgroundThe two main puzzles of this study are the onset and then sudden stopping of severe epidemics in western Provence (a highly malaria-endemic region of Mediterranean France) without any deliberate counter-measures and in the absence of significant population flux.