Leaking Containers
Success and Failure in Controlling the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11029716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilana Löwy (0000-0001-6963-0578, Ilana Löwy is with CERMES 3 INSERM, CNRS, EHESS, Universite Paris V, France., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-524 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2017.303652 |
| PMID | 28207332 |
| OpenAlex | W2588776800 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 1 |
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
Aedes · Aedes aegypti · Biology · Chikungunya · Dengue fever · Dengue virus · Environmental health · Geography · Virus · Yellow fever · Zika virus · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Ecology · Virology
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| Citations per year | 2.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |