Of love and other demons: depicting human rabies in Colombia

Luis Octavio Tierradentro-García; María Camila Cortés-Albornoz; Claudia Talero-Gutiérrez

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09703

Of love and other demons: depicting human rabies in Colombia

Título traducido de la contribución: Del amor y otros demonios: retratando la rabia humana en Colombia

Luis Octavio Tierradentro-García, María Camila Cortés-Albornoz, Claudia Talero-Gutiérrez

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La rabia humana ha sido descrita por diversas culturas en muchos países del mundo. La novela De Gabriel García Márquez Del amor y otros demonios cuenta la historia de una niña que, en la Colombia colonial del siglo XVIII , fue mordida por un perro rabioso . Este artículo tiene como objetivo revisar el estado general de la enfermedad en Colombia y entrelazarlo con el libro de García Márquez. Los países desarrollados han controlado con éxito la transmisión del virus de la rabia transmitida por perros , mientras que en algunos países de América Latina la rabia canina y la vida silvestre siguen siendo un problema. Nuestro enfoque sugiere que si bien las medidas que se han tomado para mitigar la rabia transmitida por perros han funcionado bien en la mayor parte del mundo, se requieren mayores esfuerzos para controlar la rabia selvática transmitida por murciélagos u otros mamíferos, como ocurre en Colombia. Dado que los países en desarrollo son los más afectados actualmente por la enfermedad, es necesario un compromiso transdisciplinario entre los sectores humano y veterinario para luchar contra la transmisión del virus de la rabia.

Título traducido de la contribución	Del amor y otros demonios: retratando la rabia humana en Colombia
Idioma original	Inglés estadounidense
Número de artículo	e09703
Páginas (desde-hasta)	1-9
Número de páginas	9
Publicación	Heliyon
Volumen	8
N.º	6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09703
Estado	Publicada - jun. 10 2022

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