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REVOLT REVOLT OF VACCINE VACCINE Call Vaccine Revolt held from 10 a November 16, 1904 in
the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the beginning of the republican period in the
history of Brazil was marked by various conflicts and uprisings, the Rio de Janeiro did not
escape this situation. In 1904, a movement erupted character popular in the city of Rio
de Janeiro. The reason that triggered the rebellion was the vaccination mandatory, imposed
by the federal government, smallpox STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
The state of Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century, was precarious. The population suffered
from the lack of an efficient system of sanitation. This fact triggered constant outbreaks, including
fever, yellow fever, plague and smallpox. The low-income population, which lived in
substandard housing, was the main victim of this context. Concerned with this situation,
then President Rodrigues Alves put in place a sanitation project and redevelopment of
the city center. The physician and sanitarian Oswaldo Cruz was appointed by the president
to be the head of the National Department of Public Health, with the goal of improving
the sanitary conditions of the city. The compulsory vaccination campaign is put
in place in November 1904. Although their goal was positive, it was applied in authoritarian
and violent. In some cases, health officials raided the homes and forcibly vaccinate people,
causing upheaval in people. This refusal to be vaccinated happened, since most did not
know it was a vaccine, and feared its effects. The uprising grew every day, also driven by
the economic crisis (unemployment, inflation and high cost of living) and urban reform
which removed the poor from the city center, tearing down slums and several other types
of homes easier. "Shots, shouting, traffic jam, commerce closed, public transportation
robbed and burned, broken lamps with stones, shell destruction of public and private buildings,
trees felled: the people of Rio de Janeiro revolts against mandatory vaccination project
proposed by sanitarian Oswaldo Cruz. "Popular demonstrations and conflicts spread through
the streets of the Brazilian capital. Popular destroy trams, apedrejem public buildings
and reflect the disorder in the city. On November 16, 1904, President Rodrigues Alves repealing
the law of compulsory vaccination, putting the army on the streets, the navy and the
police to stop the riots. In a few days the city returned to calm and order.
Summarizing the revolt of the vaccine occurred because people did not know that they were
being vaccinated why they were being vaccines in them, and thought it was a lethal virus,
when in fact it was only a vaccine that would cure all of them, because due to lack of sanitation
base in the city of rio de janeiro, generated a major epidemic diseases such as smallpox,
yellow fever, among other ... It was a great revolt from the people who
thought he was being the victim of some massacre or something more on November 16, 1904 when
the mandatory vaccine was established, the police and the army took to the streets ending
any kind of protest ... the revolt eventually became a silly thing, because in the end they
were running their own healing ...