ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization (WHO) European Region consists of 51 countries located in an area that roughly corresponds geographically to Europe, Anatolia (the part of Turkey that comprises the peninsula of Asia Minor), the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), Siberia, and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan). According to Macdonald (1957), this area corresponds to the North Eurasian and Mediterranean epidemiological areas and is located entirely within the Palearctic zoogeographic region (described in detail in Chapter 9). Since 1990, malaria has reemerged—in different aspects and for different reasons—in Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
