THE EPIDEMIC COURSE: the Rockefeller Foundation and the yellow fever outbreaks in Bahia in 1926
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https://doi.org/10.18817/ot.v17i30.787Keywords:
Febre Amarela, Teoria Dos Focos-Chave, Saúde InternacionalAbstract
This paper aims to analyze actions to control yellow fever in Bahia, especially during the 1926 outbreaks, that contributed to question the effectiveness of the theory of “focos-chave”, up held by the Rockefeller Foundation. Members of the international philantropic agency and doctors of the bahia acted to try to find the spreading center of the epidemic. The sources used are reports, correspondence, and photographs collected at the Rockefeller Archive Center, a report from the Yellow Fever Rural Prophylaxis Service, articles written by doctors in specialized journals and news published in newspapers of the time. Epidemiological and clinical investigations were established as the disease proliferated along the railway line that ran across the state.
Keywords: Yellow Fever. Focos-Chave Theory. International Health.
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