Segnaliamo il seminario online “When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)”, patrocinato dalla Società Italiana di Storia Sociale, in programma il 29 aprile 2025 alle ore 16.30 (UTC +1).
Between 1920 and 1975, Brazil was pitted against an unprecedented sanitary phenomenon. Plague and yellow fever, two urban diseases, progressively advanced towards the Brazilian hinterland, where they infected rural populations and wild animals, such as rodents, marsupials, and primates. The history of diseases moving from cities to wild spaces complexifies current mainstream interpretations about emerging infectious diseases. Exploring this difference, in this presentation I will ask: which knowledge about diseases becoming wild emerged in Brazil? How did Brazilian health authorities control these wild diseases? What were the social and environmental consequences of anti-wild disease measures in Brazil? In reconstructing the epistemological, political, social, and environmental dimensions of wild diseases in Brazil, this presentation aims to complexify the global history of disease ecology.
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