Message-ID: <19B9AC371C1@hal2010.nw.uoguelph.ca> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:37:15 EDT From: mailto:ASARE@NET2.EOS.UOGUELPH.CA Subject: Re: Eye Disease and Development To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
There were obvious health hazards which resulted from the creation of breeding grounds in flooded areas and other areas that were affected by the volta river project for disease carrying vectors (eg snail host of schistosomiasis, black fly related to river blindness, tsetse fly related to African sleeping sickness,and mosquitoes related to malaria, yellow fever and filaria). A project was undertaken by the world health organization specifically on river blindness in Ghana and parts of the west African region(my guess is it is still on-going). The WHO office should be able to provide some more information on the conditions that created the epidemic proportions of this disease after the volta river project. You can look at the ref. below as well:Derban, L. K. A. 1984. Health impacts of the Volta dam. In R. Biset and P. Tomlinson (Editors) Perspective on environmental impact assessment(EIA). Proceedings of the annual training course on EIA. DReidel publishing Co, Boston, USA.
I hope these information are helpful. S. Asare Guelph Canada.
#-Date sent: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:50:03 -0700 #-Send reply to: Kristin <mailto:ka@UVIC.CA> #-From: Kristin <mailto:ka@UVIC.CA> #-Subject: Eye Disease and Development #-To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
#-Hello, #- #-I was hoping to correlate increasing River Blindness in the Volta area with #-hydroelectric projects. Also, a related parasite has a mosquito vector as #-opposed to the black fly. When an area is deforested, does a surge occur #-in incidence of the other parasite? Does anyone know where I could obtain #-these statistics? #- #-Thank you, #-Kristin Ackerson #-