Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Περιβάλλον και Υγεία: Διαχείριση Περιβαλλοντικών Θεμάτων με Επιπτώσεις στην ΥγείαLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Salonikidou Maria
Supervisors info:
Πολυξένη Νικολοπούλου Σταμάτη, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ, Επιβλέπουσα
Ανδρέας Χ. Λάζαρης, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Τσάκνης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Επιστήμης και Τεχνολογίας Τροφίμων, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Original Title:
Επιπτώσεις στο περιβάλλον και πιθανοί κίνδυνοι για την ανθρώπινη υγεία εξαιτίας της μείωσης του πληθυσμού των μελισσών.
Translated title:
Environmental impacts and potential human health risks due to the reductions in bee populations.
Summary:
In recent years there has been an increasing interest, concern and research into the cause of the disappearance of nature's main pollinators, which are bees. Although the reasons are not completely clear, they have concluded that the Colony Collapse Disorder syndrome (CCD) which is affecting their population drastically, is due to a variety of factors such as diseases and parasites, intensive agricultural industry, climate change and environmental pollution. The main reason is the pesticides used by farmers. Bees are very important for the ecosystem, biodiversity and especially for humans and animals’ nutrition, which is the reason researchers have been trying to create technological breakthroughs, “robot bees" in replacement of live insects. Furthermore, bees play a very important and emerging role in medicine, honey and bee derivatives were used by Ancient Greece to cure both simple and serious ailments. In recent decades, research has been done on bee venom which appears to have beneficial properties in cancer, but is at a very early stage. Bee derivatives are used by many industries, and as a result, rising food prices and taxes have led farmers and industries to take precautions to avoid harm and enhance the health of bees so as not to eradicate that important specie of pollinator, which is responsible for the integrity of biodiversity, world food and human health.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Bees, Environment, Health, Pesticides, Climate change
