Zika's ghosts
In. Franco, Sebastião Pimentel; Nascimento, Dilene Raimundo do; Silveira, Anny Jackeline Torres. Uma história brasileira das doenças. Belo Horizonte, Fino Traço, 2017. p.11-31. (História).
Monography
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| ID: his-38731
Biblioteca responsable:
BR1273.1
Ubicación: BR1273.1; 616.09, F825h, v.7
ABSTRACT
This text discuss the Brazil's Zika epidemic. Zika fever is a relatively old disease, since the Zika virus was isolated in 1947 in Africa, but also a very new one it had reached the headlines in fall 2015,, when observations made in north-eastern Brazil linked can infection with Zika virus (ZIKV) with an increased riskof microencephaly, a severe birth defect. After a dramatic surge of 2015-2016, the prevalence of Zika in Brazil has greatly decreased. The mosquito Aedes aegypti, the main vector of ZIKV, wasofficially eliminated from Brazil in 1958 in the framework of the PAHO directed, continent-wide campaign to eradicate this mosquito. Studies of epidemics are usually focused on moments of an acute calamity.
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Colección:
05-specialized
Base de datos:
HISA
Asunto principal:
Brotes de Enfermedades
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Aedes
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
País/Región como asunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
História
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Monography