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Submitted June 11, 2021
Published 2021-06-11

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No. 5 (2021): Revista Panameña de Ciencias Sociales

Las pandemias como resultante de la reciente ecología-mundo capitalista


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Published: 2021-06-11

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Castillo, G. A., Muñoz Umaña, L. Y., & Molano Camargo, F. (2021). Las pandemias como resultante de la reciente ecología-mundo capitalista. Revista Panameña De Ciencias Sociales, (5), 61–78. Retrieved from https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/rev_pma_ciencias_sociales/article/view/2191

Abstract

This article analyzes three 21st century diseases caused by coronavirus. The SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome caused by the SARS-CoV-1 virus in 2001 and 2002, the Middle East Acute Respiratory Syndrome caused by the MERS-CoV virus, which affected populations in the Middle East in 2012, and the recent pandemic the Covid-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus since the end of 2019. The new form of organization of nature in the capitalist ecology-world is presented as the source of the epidemiological transition revealed by these conditions in the framework of financial capitalism. The proliferation of these diseases in Latin America and the world accounts for four elements of this system: the commodification of natural goods with high production of animals and plants that generates risk scenarios for viral mutations and exposure to them; the intervention of ecosystems that had remained partially outside the market, increasing the production of CO2 and the possibilities of viral mutation; the weakening of public health and sanitation systems and the worsening of inequality and social injustice, with variables according to gender and race, causing women, ethnic groups and impoverished majorities to be more vulnerable to health and environmental crises.

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