Oswaldo Cruz's sanitation campaign in Rio
Campaña sanitaria de Oswaldo Cruz en Río de Janeiro
- Date
- 1903-1907 · confidence high
- Place
- Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Credited to
- Oswaldo Cruz
- People
- 👤 Oswaldo Cruz1872–1917
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A scientific campaign against yellow fever, bubonic plague and smallpox based on mosquito and rat control and compulsory vaccination. It eliminated urban yellow fever from Rio in 1907 and created Brazil's first biomedical research institute.
What it led to
- the Vaccine Revolt (1904)
- the Manguinhos school (Chagas, Lutz)
- Fiocruz