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2004, Number 4

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Rev Biomed 2004; 15 (4)

Erradication of the yellow fever in Merida, Yucatán: tenacity and success history

Góngora-Biachi RA

Language: Spanish
References: 17
Page: 251-258
PDF size: 438.17 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The yellow fever is a haemorragic fever sindrome caused by a flavivirus, the yellow fever virus, which is transmitted by the Aëdes aegypti and Haemagogus mosquitoes. The Popol-Vuh, the sacred book of the mayan indians, relates how yellow fever among the mayans was due to their living in close proximity to monkeys and tels of a sickness called “xekik” (vomiting blood) which ocurred between 1480 and 1485. Other sacred texts such as the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, Tizimin and Kaua,also described the epidemics of “xekik”. Fray Diego de Landa refers to the first epidemic in the region which ocurred aproximately from 1483 to 1484. There were epidemics of yellow fever in 1569 and 1571-1572, described as the “peste”. Other epidemics of yellow fever ocurred in 1648-1650, in 1699, in 1715, 1730, and 1744. The Yucatan of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century the yellow fever was present, in similar form of the others cneturies, like an endemic disease. From 1825 to 1830 there was increment in the cases. In 1905-1906 and 1911, there were new epidemic events. This paper described the erradication campaign against the yellow fever through the control of the vector aëdes aegypti mosquito, who was conducted by Dr. Diego Hernandez-Fajardo, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico from 1921 to 1923.


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