Dissemination of knowledge of venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (la hemorrágica) in the academic, professional and cultural fields of the country

Abstract

The objective investigated in the study was to collectivize the knowledge of Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF) in the academic, professional and cultural fields of the country. With the intention of transcending the intervention sectors as exchange sections in the intervened states. The method was made up of a symbolic interactionism-type study, using as communication strategies the presentation, the poster and the training session, which make it possible to disseminate knowledge of the disease to the people who are members of the groups addressed, using the binomial as a means of data collection question/answer, in the course of which the researcher answered the questions asked by the researcher. The data is systematized by means of coding, creation of unit of analysis and categories, registered in an orderly manner in a results matrix. Among other existing knowledge, they spread that it is Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever; rodent royal reservoirs Zygodontomys brevicauda, Sigmodon alstoni, Proechemys guairae, Orizomys fulvescen, Heteromys anomalus, Holochilus brasiliensis, Oecomys speciosus, Oecomys flavicans, Rattus rattus, Mus musculos; marsupials potential reservoirs: Didelphis marsupialis and Marmoza robinsoni, endemic states; gateway of the virus. It is concluded that Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever manifests itself mainly in municipalities in the plains states, with signs of spreading to the Andean state of Trujillo and the dissemination of knowledge of the fever was collectivized to 12,637 people from the academic, professional and cultural fields of the country, assistants to 33 events held, in which they witnessed 11 presentations on fever in different settings, during 12 years of research.