Abstract
By the end of the 1800s, international trade and steam navigation made way for the third bubonic plague pandemy, which started in China in 1891 and reached America in 1898. This calamity apparently arrived in Columbia's coast between 1913 and 1915, during the apex of Pasteur medicine. The deficiencies of Columbian public scientific and sanitary apparat, concerning the emerging bacteriology and epidemiology, prevented the government and the medical body from reacting against the fear and rumor of epidemy, which negatively affected the trade. The authorities were also unable to fight this problem with adequate diagnosis, enferms treatment, urban sanitation, and isolation of infected places. These difficulties led to a confrontation between the government and the medical body, inciting an argument about the existence of the plague. This discussion was settled by the North American official medicine that, in its verdict, gave preference to the commercial interests of the United States, ignoring the sanitary urgencies of the Columbian Atlantic coast.
Highlights
A fines del siglo XIX, el comercio internacional y la navegación a vapor facilitaron la tercera pandemia de peste bubónica que comenzó en China en 1891 y llegó al continente americano en 1898
By the end of the 1800s, international trade and steam navigation made way for the third bubonic plague pandemy, which started in China in 1891 and reached America in 1898
The authorities were unable to fight this problem with adequate diagnosis, enferms treatment, urban sanitation, and isolation of infected places
Summary
Las deficiencias del aparato científico-sanitario estatal colombiano, basado en la bacteriología y la epidemiología nacientes no le permitieron al Estado y al cuerpo médico responder al miedo y a los rumores de epidemia que lograron afectar negativamente el comercio. By the end of the 1800s , international trade and steam navigation made way for the third bubonic plague pandemy, which started in China in 1891 and reached America in 1898 This calamity apparently arrived in Colombia’s coast between 1913 and 1915, during the apex of Pasteur medicine. The authorities were unable to fight this problem with adequate diagnosis, enferms treatment, urban sanitation, and isolation of infected places These difficulties led to a confrontation between the government and the medical body, inciting an argument about the existence of the plague.
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