Volcanic Soil Erosion and Degradation in Central American Continental Countries and Impact on Humans' Health

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Volcanic Soil Erosion and Degradation in Central American Continental Countries and Impact on Humans' Health

Original language description

Seven Central American continental countries (in alphabetical order: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) with 43 mil inhabitants are located between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in a territory of 522,300 km2 with more than 13 mil heads of cattle. Large areas of forest have been deforested and burned for fuel wood or for agricultural use. The most important soil orders in this region are: inceptisols, mollisols, alfisols, andisols and ultisols. Deforestation and agriculture activities caused large-scale erosion and soil loss and many areas are vulnerable to flash floods. More than half of arable land of this region is estimated to be affected by degradation processes. Due to these facts the aim of this study is to review the risks for humans&apos; health in this region; soil and/or dust and mud including surface water were documented as a reservoirs and/or vehicles of different causal agents of soil borne diseases (sapronoses and saprozoonoses): viral infections (hanta pulmonary syndrome and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis), bacterial infections (anthrax and leptospirosis) and parasitic infections (by protozoa caused bovine and porcine cysticercosis and toxoplasmosis). Based on the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) data the epidemiological situation was analyzed during the decade between the years 2005 and 2014.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings from International conference Soil - the non-renewable environmental resource

ISBN

978-80-7509-413-1

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

230-241

Publisher name

Mendelova univerzita v Brně

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

Sep 7, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000403658200024