Uncertainty in times of medical emergency: Knowledge gaps and structural ignorance during the Brazilian Zika crisis
Uncertainty was a defining feature of the Brazilian Zika crisis of 2015–2016. The cluster of cases of neonatal microcephaly detected in the country's northeast in the second half of 2015, and the possibility that a new virus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes was responsible for this new syndrome,...
Main Authors: | Kelly, AH, Lezaun, J, Löwy, I, Matta, GC, de Oliveira Nogueira, C, Rabello, ET |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020
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