A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil

Lopes, Gabriel; Reis‐Castro, Luísa

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26795-7_6

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“…The framing of epidemics defines public health policies and health research [28,29]. Some studies that showed how Zika's representation as an epidemic centered on mosquitoes and women are based on a limited conceptualization of virus transmission, human sexuality and reproduction [30]. The Zika epidemic showed once more that public health policies to control epidemics produced narratives suggesting that women were responsible for controlling the virus, since their bodies were the most affected.…”

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“Too Much to Ask, Too Much to Handle”: Women’s Coping in Times of Zika

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Tristan-Cheever

Furtado

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Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a cause of congenital brain abnormalities. Its consequences for pregnancies have made governments and both national and international agencies issue advice and recommendations to women. This study was designed to understand the impacts of Zika on women who were less directly affected and less vulnerable to Zika. Women were recruited from various locations in Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. Women perceived that public health systems placed an unfair responsibility for preventing health complications from Zika onto women who had limited ability to do so. They also stated that the measures recommended to them were invasive, while creating the perception that women were the sole determinant of whether they contracted Zika. The results indicate that women with higher levels of education understood the limitations of the information, government actions, and medical care they received, which ended up producing higher levels of anguish and worry. Gender inequality and discrimination must be recognized and rendered visible in the public health emergency response. The social effects of the epidemic affected women more than had been thought before and at deeper emotional levels.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Too Much to Ask, Too Much to Handle”: Women’s Coping in Times of Zika

Arias

Tristan-Cheever

Furtado

et al. 2020

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“…In turn, such communities became prime sites for the emergence of diseases carried by the mosquito. In 1986, the increasing presence of the Aedes aegypti in Rio de Janeiro was linked to the first major recurrence of dengue in Brazil (Lopes and Reis‐Castro 2019).…”

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Pathogenic Metabolisms: A Rift and the Zika Virus in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Kaup

2020

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The Zika virus in Brazil is often portrayed as emerging in and more severely inflicting the country’s impoverished coastal urban areas. However, the virus also impacted residents in wealthier and more rural areas. To understand how the Zika virus moved to seemingly less likely places, I bring political ecological approaches to health and disease into conversation with scholarly accounts of metabolic rifts. Making an incorporated comparison of the ways in which global finance and the Brazilian state shaped the relationship between urban and rural areas, I demonstrate how the era of modernist urban industrialisation resulted in the creation of more traditional spaces of Zika emergence in the country’s urban impoverished areas and the shift towards neoliberal agricultural extractivism resulted in the creation of seemingly more unusual spaces of Zika emergence in the wealthier less populated interior.

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“…Campanhas nacionais para eliminar o A. aegypti no início do século XX, na época vetor do vírus da febre amarela, tornaram-se uma política emblemática, visando "modernizar" e "civilizar" o país (LÖWY, 2006). Essas campanhas estavam vinculadas às políticas racistas e eugenistas, que incentivavam a imigração de europeus (brancos) para "embranquecer" o país -já que a febre amarela poderia matar e afugentar esses novos imigrantes/ colonizadores, considerados particularmente susceptíveis à doença (CHALHOUB, 1993;LOPES;REIS-CASTRO, 2019).…”

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“…Floresta, macaco, império, mosquito, campanha, laboratório, placenta, sangue, sêmen, repelente, cuidado, saneamento: as "histórias de Zika" são múltiplas (REIS-CASTRO, 2019). Para examinar a epidemia de Zika no Brasil, optamos, neste artigo, por acompanhar as rotas de transmissão do vírus, estudando-as não só como processos biológicos, mas também políticos e sociais.…”

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Uma antropologia da transmissão: mosquitos, mulheres e epidemia de Zika no Brasil

Castro

Nogueira

2020

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No Brasil, Zika é apresentado como um vírus transmitido somente por mosquitos e a epidemia como uma preocupação somente para mulheres. Para examinar essa errônea caracterização, este artigo investiga as múltiplas rotas de transmissão do vírus Zika: transmissão vetorial (através da picada de um mosquito), transmissão por fluidos (através, por exemplo, do sêmen) e transmissão vertical (através da placenta para o feto no útero). Ao analisarmos a passagem de patógenos de um organismo para outro e as formas como essas passagens são entendidas, investigadas e (des)consideradas, abordamos, simultaneamente, aspectos biológicos e culturais. Argumentamos que uma antropologia, centrada na transmissão, permite elucidar as materialidades corporais, os significados simbólicos e as consequências políticas do movimento de patógenos de um organismo para outro, como relações entre humanos e não humanos. Sugerimos que essa “antropologia da transmissão” também possibilita o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas mais abrangentes e inclusivas.

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A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil

Cited by 16 publications

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“Too Much to Ask, Too Much to Handle”: Women’s Coping in Times of Zika

“Too Much to Ask, Too Much to Handle”: Women’s Coping in Times of Zika

Pathogenic Metabolisms: A Rift and the Zika Virus in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Uma antropologia da transmissão: mosquitos, mulheres e epidemia de Zika no Brasil

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