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Español · México y Hong Kong: Miedo al mortal virus de la fiebre porcina
Global Voices in English » Mexico and Hong Kong: Fears over the fatal swine flu virus 2009
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La fiebre de “crepúsculo” no podría estar más caliente. ‘true blood’ está cosechando los ratings más altos de HBO en años, y los libros de Charlaine Harris, las novelas ‘Sookie Stackhouse’ en los cuales se basa el programa de televisión, actualmente sostienen el octavo lugar entre los 20 en la lista del New York Times Best Seller.
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Y lo que es peor, el ministerio de salud que publicita muy bien su estrategia de lucha contra la fiebre porcina, no tiene datos (mínimamente, no?) acerca del plan de lucha/prevención/tratamiento, de las consecuencias del friaje, que cada año, asola a la infancia de las zonas altoandinas.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Freezing Temperatures in Puno Result in Children Deaths 2009
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Español · El Caribe: Siguiendo de cerca a la fiebre porcina
Global Voices in English » Caribbean: Keeping Track of Swine Flu 2009
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Español · Irán: Patatas gratis exaltan la fiebre electoral
Global Voices in English » Iran: Free Potatoes Inflamed Electoral Fever 2009
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By the eighteenth century, travelers and residents alike attributed the many deaths to one disease in particular: el vómito prieto, or as it came to be known in the late colonial period, fiebre amarilla. 67 One traveler, the indefatigable Capuchine friar, Francisco de Ajofrín, had this to say about the horrors of the illness:
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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For nineteenth-century travelers 'accounts, see Salvador Novo, Breve historia y antología sobre la fiebre amarilla (México: Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia, 1964). back
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Note 67: Miguel E. Bustamante, "La fiebre amarilla en México y su origen en América," in Florescano and Malvido, p. 27; Andrew L. Knaut.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Bustamante, Miguel E. 1982 "La fiebre amarilla en México y su origen en América."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Frequently mentioned disease in colonial period; a group of symptoms common to many diseases, such as pleurisy, emphysema, pneumonia, or tuberculosis. escorbuto: scurvy. ex-voto: small votive paintings produced to tell the story of a threatening event from which the subject has been delivered miraculously through the intervention of a divine figure, to whom thanks are reverently offered. fiebre amarilla: yellow fever.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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