Author:

• Rodrigo Siqueira Batista - Rodrigo Siqueira Batista - Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro - DCS/ENSP/FIOCRUZ - <rsiqueirabatista@yahoo.com.br>

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Abstract:

The inter-relations between the man and the environment are among the main themes currently debated by the brazilian public health. On such horizon, the questions concerning Chagas’s disease are found to remain — specially in the scope of the directed actions of control to the triatomíneos, the anti-vectorial fight —, though already a century since its first description by Carlos Chagas, a major epidemiological problem in Latin America. Based on these considerations the present article will seek to discuss the main ecological aspects related to the American trypanosomiasis, emphasizing the control of the vectorial transmission in the context of the deep ecology.
Key-works: ecology; Chagas’s disease; Trypanosoma cruzi; ethics; health

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