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1. [The "Regional-Medical Congress of Navarre" (1886): an exercise in sharing scientific knowledge].

Author

León P

Subjects
Cholera epidemiology, History, 19th Century, Spain, Cholera history, Congresses as Topic history, Disease Outbreaks history
Abstract

Unlabelled: This paper discusses the last wave of cholera in Navarre (1884-85). This epidemic has been the least studied because it barely affected Pamplona, the largest urban area in the province. But the situation was critical in other zones close to the River Ebro (the Ribera area)., Background: In 1886, the "Regional-Medical Congress of Navarre", held in Tafalla (Navarre), studied the latest cholera epidemic in the region. An analysis of this scientific meeting is of interest because of the data it offers on the physicians' reactions to the development of microbiology and public hygiene, shortly after Robert Koch had isolated the comma-shaped cholera bacillus in 1883 ("Bacillus virgula"), and the controversy over the distribution of the vaccine by Jaime Ferrán y Clúa, in 1885., Material and Methods: Analysis of the conference reports presented at the "Regional-Medical Congress"., Conclusions: This scientific medical gathering in Tafalla was innovative for Navarre. The transfer of ideas from international conferences on the cholera epidemic can be seen. The development of the Conference was influenced by medical celebrities like Nicasio Landa and Antonio Espina y Capo. We can also observe differences in the physicians' ideas. At the time there was no paradigm on microbiology in the world of science. The questionnaires produced by the Navarrese physicians for the study of the epidemic are a good example of the procedure for analysing a public health problem and of the measures proposed in a situation of cholera epidemic.

Published
2009
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2. [Survival of Vibrio cholerae 01 in freshwater surface and endemic cholera: a geological hypothesis].

Author

Borroto RJ

Subjects
Cholera microbiology, Geological Phenomena, Geology, Humans, Latin America epidemiology, Vibrio Infections epidemiology, Vibrio Infections microbiology, Cholera epidemiology, Vibrio cholerae, Water Microbiology
Abstract

The danger that cholera is becoming endemic in Latin America makes it imperative to know the geographic location of aquatic environments where ecological conditions favor long-term survival of the toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype, and such aquatic environments should be sampled to determine if they harbor this microorganism. For efficient and effective sampling, it would be useful to know what kinds of waters are ecologically suitable for the survival of this pathogen during periods between epidemics, and where these bodies of water are located. This paper presents the hypothesis that toxigenic V. cholerae O1's ability to survive in surface freshwaters tends to be inversely related to the altitude above sea level of these freshwaters.

Published
1998
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3. Dr. Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré, primer epidemiólogo de América Latina

Author

Gabriel J. Toledo Curbelo

Subjects
COLERA, BROTES DE ENFERMEDADES, METODOS EPIDEMIOLOGICOS, CHOLERA, DISEASE OUTBREAKS, EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

Se pretende demostrar cómo con 13 años de diferencia, el doctor John Snow, en Inglaterra, en el año 1854 y el doctor Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré, en Cuba, en el año 1867, utilizaron el mismo método de razonamiento, el mismo enfoque que luego se conocería como epidemiológico, para solucionar brotes epidémicos, el primero en la calle Broad Street, en el Soho londinense, Inglaterra; el segundo, el brote epidémico de la barriada del Cerro, en la Habana Extramuros, Cuba. Sólo 13 años separaron a ambos grandes de la ciencia en la utilización del método científico en su forma particular, el Método Epidemiológico, para la investigación y solución de un problema grave que afectaba la salud pública, en este caso relacionado con el cólera. Si ese hecho le valió al doctor John Snow el ser considerado por muchos como el "Padre de la epidemiología moderna", con lo que nosotros estamos plenamente de acuerdo, reclamamos para el doctor Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré, quien primero utilizó el método científico en la América Latina, para investigar y solucionar un problema de salud de gran magnitud que se estaba produciendo en Cuba, que se le considere como el "Primer epidemiólogo latinoamericano".The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how with a difference of 13 years Dr. John Sonw in England, in 1854, and Dr. Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré in Cuba, in 1867, used the same reasoning and the same approach that later will be know as epidemiological to solve disease outbreaks. The first epidemic occurred in Broad Street in Soho, a district of London, England, and the second one in the district of Cerro, outside Havana, Cuba. Only 13 years separated these great scientists in the utilization of the scientific method in its particular form, the Epidemiological Method, to investigate and resolve a severe problem that affected public health and that was connected with cholers this time. If that fact allowed John Snow to be considered as the "Father of modern epidemiology", with which we completely agree, we demand that Dr. Carlos J. Finlay y de Barré, who used the scientific method for the first time in Latin America to investigate and face an extremely serious health problem that was taking place in Cuba, be considered as the "First Latin American epidemiologist".

Published
1998

4. La 'nueva' amenaza de cólera en Haití tras el paso del huracán Matthew: ¿hay respuesta desde el contexto onusiano?

Author

María Isabel Torres Cazorla

Subjects
Disasters, Haití, Cholera, United Nations, Right to health, Derecho a la salud, Organismos especializados, Naciones Unidas, Specialized Agencies, Catástrofes, Haiti, Cólera
Abstract

En este trabajo se pretende abordar, de manera breve, lo acontecido respecto de la epidemia de cólera desatada en Haití durante el año en curso, de la que ya existían indicios en el momento en que se estaba desarrollando el plenario de la Asamblea General en el actual período de sesiones. Por supuesto, la situación se ha agravado de forma sustancial tras el paso del huracán Matthew y la devastación provocada por el mismo. Desde un contexto conectado con la salud como derecho humano, el bioderecho y las eventuales respuestas que Naciones Unidas y su familia pueden ofrecer, cabe preguntarnos por las eventuales respuestas que se están dando desde dichos organismos internacionales para hacer frente a este desafío. Last September 2016 during the Annual General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly the issue of health risks in the wake of natural disasters like hurricane Matthew arose. Undoubtedly, basic existing problems with health care have been dramatically compounded as a consequence of hurricane "Matthew”. This paper focuses on the cholera epidemic in Haiti at the end of this year using the perspective of the right to health as an essential human right, biolaw an UN response. There is a key question that must be addressed- How can these international entities deal with these challenges?

Published
2016

5. Una lucha tardía para defender la teoría localista: dos cartas de Hauser a Pettenkofer

Author

Uzcanga Lacabe, Clara

Subjects
Localist theory, teoría localista, cholera, epidemiology, cólera, Pettenkofer, bacteriology, Hauser, epidemiología, bacteriología
Abstract

Tras ganar el Premio Bréant en 1888 por su investigación, basada en la teoría localista sobre la epidemia de cólera en España, Philipp Hauser (1832-1925) escribió a su maestro Max von Pettenkofer (1818-1901), fundador de la epidemiología y de la higiene experimental. En este artículo se contextualizan y exponen dos de las cartas encontradas en Munich, donde se evidencia que mantuvieron relaciones científicas. En la primera, fechada el 26 de diciembre de 1888, Hauser le informó sobre las nuevas perspectivas para su teoría. En la segunda, fechada el 27 de noviembre de 1892, Hauser adoptó una posición crítica frente a Koch y la bacteriología, porque ésta no aportaba solución a los problemas de las enfermedades infecciosas y tampoco los métodos de desinfección propuestos resultaban eficaces. In this paper, I present two new letters between the German epidemiologist and hygienist Max von Pettenkofer (1818-1901) and his former disciple Philipp Hauser (1832-1925) on the occasion of the latter's award of the 1888 Prix Bréant for his research on the Spanish cholera epidemic. In the first letter, dated 26 December 1888, Hauser expounds his views on the localist theory. In the second, on 27 November 1892, he describes his objections to Koch and the bacteriological approach, based on its ineffectiveness for fighting infectious diseases.

Published
2013

6. The social construction of sanitary oligarchies in a city of the western Mediterranean: the kairos of a ruling class. Elements of Elche changing society, 1884-1903

Author

Mariano Monge Juárez

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, Public health, Nursing (miscellaneous), geography.geographical_feature_category, Oligarchy health, Oligarquía sanitaria, Geography, Cholera, Peninsula, Salud pública, Science journalism, Anthropology, Periodismo científico, Societal change, Enfermería, Humanities, Cambio de sociedad, Demography, Cólera
Abstract

El objeto de este artículo es el estudio de las oligarquías sanitarias y su relación con el cambio de sociedad, que supone el proceso de contemporaneización en Elche, una ciudad del sureste de la península, casi en la frontera del antiguo Reino de Valencia con el de Murcia, en el Mediterráneo occidental, durante el momento de trasformación de sus medios y mondos de vida que tienen como referentes el periodo comprendido entre la inauguración del ferrocarril y la epidemia de cólera en 1884, los orígenes de la industria del calzado y la gran huelga obrera de 1903. The purpose of this paper is to study the health oligarchies and their relationship with the change of society, which is the process of contemporaneización in Elche, a city in the southeast of the peninsula, near the border of the former Kingdom of Valencia with that of Murcia, in the western Mediterranean, during the time of transformation of their means of life and mondos having as reference the period from the opening of the railway and the cholera epidemic in 1884, the origins of the footwear industry and the great strike working in 1903. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar as oligarquías de saúde e sua relação com a mudança da sociedade, que é o processo de contemporaneización em Elche, uma cidade no sudeste da península, perto da fronteira do antigo Reino de Valência com o de Murcia, no Mediterrâneo Ocidental, durante o tempo de transformação dos seus meios de vida e mondos tendo como referência o período a partir da abertura da estrada de ferro e da epidemia de cólera, em 1884, as origens da indústria do calçado e da grande greve trabalhando em 1903.

Published
2012

7. History of cholera in Peru in 1991

Author

Maguiña Vargas, Ciro, Seas Ramos, Carlos, Galán Rodas, Edén, and Santana Canchanya, Jimmy Jesús

Subjects
epidemia, Perú, History, Cholera, Historia, epidemic, Cólera
Abstract

El cólera es una enfermedad infecciosa aguda, que su sola mención asusta. Hasta el siglo XIX, el cólera existía únicamente en Asia y en la India, posteriormente se extendió siguiendo las rutas comerciales por casi todo el mundo causando 6 pandemias desde 1817 a 1923. Posteriormente volvió a limitarse a regiones del Sudeste de Asia. Salvo una epidemia aislada ocurrida en 1947 en Egipto. El cólera hace su aparición en América del Sur a fines del mes de enero de 1991, en Chancay - Perú, extendiéndose rápidamente a otras ciudades como Chimbote, Piura, Callao, Lima y posteriormente a casi todos los departamentos en la Costa, Sierra y Selva del Perú y luego a casi todo América. A pesar de las dificultades económicas, laborales, logísticas, etc, la epidemia de 1991 en el Perú fue adecuadamente manejada, controlada y la letalidad fue una de las más bajas del mundo. En América ha resurgido el 2010 el cólera en Haití, por ello debemos estar siempre alertas. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar las condiciones económicas y sanitarias a su ingreso al Perú, curso de la epidemia, manejo y lecciones aprendidas. Cholera is an acute infectious disease, its mere mention scary. Until the nineteenth century, cholera was only in Asia and India, then spread along trade routes by almost 6 causing worldwide pandemics from 1817 to 1923. Later again limited to regions of Southeast Asia. Except for isolated epidemics occurred in 1947 in Egypt. The cholera made its appearance in South America in late January 1991, Chancay - Perú, spreading rapidly to other cities like Chimbote, Piura, Callao, Lima and then to almost every department in the Costa, Sierra y Selva Peru and then to almost every American. Despite economic difficulties, labor, logistics, etc. The 1991 epidemic in Peru was handled properly controlled and lethality was one of the lowest in the world. In 2010, America has emerged cholera in Haiti, so we must be alert. This paper aims to present the economic and health conditions to enter Perú, epidemic, management and lessons learned. Keywords: history, epidemic, Cholera, Peru.

Published
2010