Phantom Menace
Dengue and Yellow Fever in Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15025417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk (0000-0002-9645-9355, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-243 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2020.0035 |
| PMID | 33416552 |
| OpenAlex | W3086331367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article explores the entangled histories of dengue and yellow fever. It traces how historical conflations of these diseases deepened at the start of the twentieth century in the context of rising fears that yellow fever might spread to Asia. Advances in biomedicine, I suggest, reinforced notions of their kinship and generated competing theories that dengue either foreshadowed yellow fever in Asia or inoculated the region against it. This history in which the language and science of dengue and yellow fever shadowed one another offers a nonlinear narrative of scientific progress. Furthermore, as the so-called neglected tropical diseases resurge in the present, it elucidates how disease threats are read against one another. Thus, the article offers a historical context to ongoing discussions on disease emergence and pandemic preparedness
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Dengue fever · Disease · Geography · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Linguistics · Narrative · Pandemic · Pathology · Political science · Preparedness · Virus · Yellow fever · History · Law · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Philosophy · Virology · Zoonotic diseases and public health
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |