Article ID: CBB476663717

“A Danger Which More or Less Threatens Us All”: Yellow fever and the politics of disease control in Senegal 1890–1914 (2014)

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Prior to 1900, the colony of Senegal had suffered from periodic epidemics of yellow fever. In an attempt to combat the disease, the government of Senegal began to enact new legislation to prevent the spread of epidemics. The government hoped that these new laws would allow them to control yellow fever epidemics without hurting the economic viability of the colony, but they found that the new laws created new challenges. Within the first decade of the passage of the new legislation a series of formal complaints and court cases would challenge sanitation laws and test the limits of government authority.

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Authors & Contributors
Maria Paola Zanoboni
Petrungaro, Stefano
McCrea, Heather
Yip, Ka-che
Walther, Daniel J.
Smith, F. B.
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and politics
Disease and diseases
Colonialism
Medicine
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Senegal
Mexico
Guinea
Hong Kong
Yugoslavia
West Africa
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Rockefeller Foundation
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