DAS CAPIVARAS E CARRAPATOS A UMA PROPOSTA DE COMUNICAÇÃO E MANEJO NO PARQUE NACIONAL DA SERRA DO CIPÓ PARA REDUÇÃO DE RISCOS À SAÚDE.
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Febre maculosa brasileira, gerenciamento de risco, manejo da paisagem, uso público, unidades de conservação.Abstract
We report a study first designed to deal with a collective condemnation of the capybaras, in a protected area. The emphasis shifted from the capybaras to the high risks associated to exposure to ticks, a diversified group of complex ecological relations, both with hosts and pathogens. A management program associating communication tools and varied strategies to reduce exposition to ticks was collectively proposed considering local perception about the capybaras and their ecological relations, the risk of occurrence of spotted fever, the spatial distribution of ticks, and resistance of local community to explicitly deal with transmissible health problems, due to high social magnificence and economic losses after a wrong report about Schistosomiasis in the region in a previous year.
Key-words: Environmental management; protected areas; risk management; tick bite fever.
