• DOI:10.1007/s00508-008-1033-2
Corpus ID: 27800762

Die Malaria im Römischen Kaiserreich: eine bemerkenswerte Textstelle in den Digesten

@article{Hassl2008DieMI,
  title={Die Malaria im R{\"o}mischen Kaiserreich: eine bemerkenswerte Textstelle in den Digesten},
  author={A. Hassl},
  journal={Wiener klinische Wochenschrift},
  year={2008},
  volume={120},
  pages={11-14}
}

• A. Hassl
• Published 2008
• Medicine
• Wiener klinische Wochenschrift

SummaryThe significance of malaria for the decadence and the final fall of the Western Roman Empire is discussed controversially. It seems verisimilar that Central Europe was free of malaria at the end of the last ice age, and it is undisputed that the Apennine peninsula was a substantially depopulated, endemic malaria area around 600 A.D. The immigration of three of the four Plasmodium species infectious for man took place most likely at different era and with very different effects on the… Expand

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