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Med Sante Trop
May 2013
Service de réanimation polyvalente, CHU de La Réunion, hôpital Félix-Guyon, 97405 Saint-Denis, Université Bordeaux Segalen, centre René Labusquière, Bordeaux, France.
Smallpox has been known in the Mascarene Islands since 1729, and in 1898, the vaccinogenic and anti-rabies Institute of Tananarive, the future Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, was created to combat it. Cholera first arrived in the Mascarenes in 1819, but did not affect the Comoros Islands and Madagascar until the current pandemic. Bubonic plague has beset the ports of Madagascar and the Mascarenes since 1898.
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June 2009
Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brasil.
In response to the call for a new Science of Stigma, this anthropological study investigates the moral experience of patients diagnosed with severe multibacillary leprosy. From 2003 to 2006, fieldwork was conducted in the so-called 'United-States-of-Sobral', in Ceará State, Northeast Brazil. Sobral is highly endemic for leprosy, despite intensified eradication efforts and a 30% increase in primary care coverage since 1999.
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June 1991
Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam.
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