Correspondence: Elephantiasis and Austronesian migration

--- Gaston PICHON <gaston.pichon@ird.sn> wrote:


> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:12:03 +0200
> To: p.manansala@sbcglobal.net
> From: Gaston PICHON <gaston.pichon@ird.sn>
> Subject: Austronesian parasite
>
Paul,

Please find attached a paper that could interest
austronesian and austric groups. It deals with
lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), a human
parasitic disease present in all the tropical and
subtropical areas. The parasite seems to have
followed Austronesian migrations.

Starting from Sundaland equatorial rain forests

where it was present from the Pleistocene, it seems to
have speciated in Wallacea. A special form, associated
with diurnal mosquito vectors the eggs of which are
able to be transported at long-distance in
Austronesian multi-hull canoes (they can endure dessication
and some salinity ) settled in tropical Polynesian
islands, in New Caledonia, and ... in the Mon-Khmer
speaking Nicobars! This special form did not reach

Northern Philippines nor Taiwan. The Sundaland species
seems to have expanded later with nocturnal mosquitoes
associated with rice cultivation, towards the North
(China, Korea), and towards the West (South India, Sri
Lanka).

Regards

Gaston
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Gaston Pichon
Epidemiologie des maladies a vecteurs
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Paludologie Afrotropicale
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Genetic determinism of parasitic circadian periodicity
and subperiodicity in human lymphatic filariasis
http://asiapacificuniverse.com/a2/pichonTreuil.pdf