Antonio Peter

As the illness had characteristics of a famous illness of the time, characterized for mialgias and artrologias that the sick people presented the affection were called POLKA, occurring more than a time. North-eastern and in the south also it had many vestiges of the affection. Trajano Joaquin Dos Reis, 1886, described the clinical picture during occasions in Curitiba. Antonio Peter, 1923, tells occasions of affection in Rio De Janeiro and Niteri between 1922 and 1923 describing the clinical picture of the patients. On the vectors of the affection, the Aedes mosquitos if after infectam to prick virmicos individuals and for the bite the virus transfers to the susceptvel man, thus initiating the transmission cycle. (Fonseca and Figueiredo, 2006, p.347) According to Fonseca and Figueiredo (2006, p.347).

The only animal reservoir to participate in the transmitting cycle of the virus affection is the proper man. To put, studies of field in Malaysia had registered maintenance of the virus of the affection in forests, through enzoticos cycles involving mosquitos of the treetops Aedes (Finlaya) niverus and monkeys. The affection starts suddenly, fellow creature to the virus of the grippe, bringing fever, generalized malaise, cough and chronic headache, having characteristic symptoms as: intense pains in the muscles and the meetings, regredindo the symptoms approximately after one week, this form of affection rare is fatal and leaves sequels. The hemorrhagic fever is much more serious, although to the same have initial picture of the classic, being followed of shocks and hemorrhages in the gastrointestinal treatment and the skin. The vector of the virus affection is also vector of the yellow fever. (Levinson and Jawetz, 2005, p.280). According to Health department (BRAZIL, 1996, p.17) the transmission if makes for the bite in the infectado female mosquito, in the cycle man – aedes aegypti – man.