Between the biological weapon and the “state mosquito”: Brazil-Cuba cooperation and the dengue outbreaks (1981-1988)
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Dengue, Brazil, Cuba, Aedes aegyptiAbstract
The present work intends to approach the reinfestation of Aedes aegypti and the (re) emergence of urban arboviruses, analyzing the history of the return and permanence of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, from the beginning of the 1980s. We established the dengue epidemic of 1981 in Cuba as an initial landmark, which placed hemorrhagic dengue at the center of a political controversy over its possible use as a biological weapon by the USA. The dengue epidemic in Brazil produced political-sanitary conflicts between the state and federal spheres guided by the rhythm of the spread of dengue. The tensions caused by both processes brought together Cuban and Brazilian sanitarians who sought to take stock and find solutions to the new dengue epidemics in meetings and scientific congresses that gathered Latin American researchers, health workers and doctors as an International Symposium on Yellow Fever and Dengue held in Rio de Janeiro in 1988.
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