Open AccessA FEBRE AMARELA COMO JUSTIFICATIVA AO DESRESPEITO À VIDA E AOS DIREITOS DOS ANIMAIS NÃO HUMANOS
Author(s) -
Khetlen Eduarda Ferreira Marinho dos Santos,
Fábio Ferreira Morong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
colloquium socialis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2526-7035
DOI - 10.5747/cs.2018.v02.nesp2.s0254
Subject(s) - outbreak , legislation , disease , jurisprudence , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , ethnology , geography , biology , medicine , political science , law , history , pathology
The recent outbreak of the wild-type yellow fever disease contributes to the self-imposed stanceof those affected who assume that if monkeys are killed, the contagion and disease combat wouldbe solved. However, apes are victims of the disease, just like humans, which can also kill them.Increase of murders of monkeys, they are not disease causative agents and the only transmitter ismosquito. The present study aims to raise the awareness of law enforcers and to develop asubstantial analysis of the outbreak of yellow fever and the increase in murders of monkeys. Theapplied method was the legal deductive, based on the interpretation of the legislation,jurisprudence and doctrines. It is concluded that the said infectious disease is caused by a flavirusand is transmitted in forest areas mainly by the Haemagogus mosquito of the genus Sabethes, sothat the rights of the animals should be protected, since they, like humans, also have the right tolife and protection and shouldn't it be treated as objects, but as a subject of rights