ArticleAmerican journal of public health2017
Leaking Containers: Success and Failure in Controlling the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in Brazil.
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- Yellow Fever in Non-Human Primates: A Veterinary Guide from a One Health Perspective.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Potential role of heterologous flavivirus immunity in preventing urban transmission of yellow fever virus.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Simultaneous Dengue and Chikungunya Coinfection in Endemic Area in Brazil: Clinical Presentation and Implications for Public Health.Research square · 2024Article
- Exploring Natural Alkaloids from Brazilian Biodiversity as Potential Inhibitors of theMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Robust network stability of mosquitoes and human pathogens of medical importance.Parasites & vectors · 2022Review
- Chikungunya virus Detection inViruses · 2020Article
- Predicting re-emergence times of dengue epidemics at low reproductive numbers: DENV1 in Rio de Janeiro, 1986-1990.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Gender mainstreaming as a pathway for sustainable arbovirus control in Latin America.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Access to healthcare for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil: perspectives of mothers and health professionals.Health policy and planning · 2019Article
- Prolonged mosquitocidal activity of Siparuna guianensis essential oil encapsulated in chitosan nanoparticles.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
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Abstract
In 1958, the Pan American Health Organization declared that Brazil had successfully eradicated the mosquito Aedes aegypti, responsible for the transmission of yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus. Yet in 2016 the Brazilian minister of health described the situation of dengue fever as "catastrophic." Discussing the recent epidemic of Zika virus, which amplified the crisis produced by the persistence of dengue fever, Brazil's president declared in January 2016 that "we are in the process of losing the war against the mosquito Aedes aegypti." I discuss the reasons for the failure to contain Aedes in Brazil and the consequences of this failure. A longue durée perspective favors a view of the Zika epidemic that does not present it as a health crisis to be contained with a technical solution alone but as a pathology that has the persistence of deeply entrenched structural problems and vulnerabilities.
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