Dengue Fever in Rio: Macumba versus Voltaire Gerald Weissmann Editor-in-Chief <h3>BRAZIL: DENGUE TOLL HITS 92 IN RIO STATE</h3> The death toll from a dengue outbreak in Rio de Janeiro state has reached 92, topping what was previously the state’s deadliest bout with the disease, Brazil’s government news agency said Wednesday. Another 96 possible dengue fatalities have been reported in the current outbreak but have yet to be confirmed. Washington Post , April 24, 2008 (1) Meanwhile, Rio Mayor César Maia, recently on the road in northeast Brazil, prayed to a local [Macumba] god to carry the dengue mosquito out to sea. Newsweek , April 14, 2008 (2) " Yes, sir ," [replied the Negro to Candide] " When we work in the sugar mill and get our fingers caught in the grinding machine, they chop off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off a leg. That cost me an arm and a leg: it’s the price of your eating sugar in Europe! And yet when my mother sold me for ten silver pieces on the coast of Guinea, she said to me, ‘My dear child, bless our local Fetish gods; worship them forever; they
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Dengue Fever in Rio: Macumba versus Voltaire
Weissmann, Gerald
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, Volume 22 (7): 2109
Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Jul 1, 2008
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