Producing knowledge about tropical fevers in the andes: Preventive inoculations and yellow fever in Colombia, 1880-1890

This paper analyses the emergence of yellow fever as a distinct disease in Colombia in the 1880s. Originally considered a variety of periodic paludic fever, confined to coastlines and warm river valleys, yellow fever was redefined by Colombian doctors over a period of less than ten years, as a disti...

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Autor Principal: García, Mónica
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23305
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hks037