Correspondência espacial entre a suinocultura intensiva e a incidência de COVID-19 nos EUA, Brasil e Alemanha
The international press has reported the occurrence of contamination outbreaks by Covid-19 among meat production workers, especially pigs, in different locations in countries like the United States, Brazil and Germany. Despite the fact that the possibility of transmitting the virus, both from animal...
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2021
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| Sumario: | The international press has reported the occurrence of contamination outbreaks by Covid-19 among meat production workers, especially pigs, in different locations in countries like the United States, Brazil and Germany. Despite the fact that the possibility of transmitting the virus, both from animals to humans, and vice versa, still has not been confirmed by health epidemiological organizations and is denied by companies and regulatory agencies, research related to this theme is also rare, and the testing in animals submitted to intensive husbandry practically does not exist. On the other hand, several researchers have indicated that certain similarities in the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems of animals and humans, especially in the case of pigs, may favour the possibility of interspecific virus transmission. Based on such questionings and utilising human geography methods and thematic cartography techniques, this research aimed at identifying and analysing a possible correspondence in the spatial distribution between the Covid-19 contagion rates and the pig production data in these three countries. For that, COVID-19 contagion data (up to June 2020) and pig production in the United States, Germany and Brazil were obtained, classified, related, analysed and represented in the form of thematic maps. Countries that are characterized by being among the largest pork producers in the world, as well as, at least the United States and Brazil, are among those that have presented the highest contagion rates by the new coronavirus. As a result, it was possible to identify an evident correspondence in the spatial distribution of these data in the three countries, indicating the urgent need for further investigation and on-the-spot monitoring by the health surveillance agencies and the producing companies of the sector. |
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