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Parasitic infections are related to poor health education, inadequate environmental sanitation and contamination of soil with fecal matter. Soil contamination with zoonotic parasites that are excreted by animals, which are emitted or become infective in the soil, can infect humans and produce clinical symptoms. In order to evaluate the presence of parasites in the soil of a park in a city in Ecuador, data analysis was performed in the EPIINFO 6.0 platform to obtain the number of samples. Fifty soil samples were collected, each sample was processed with Willis and spontaneous sedimentation techniques. In the microscopic analysis, 38% of the samples were positive, the most frequent species was Toxocara canis, with a prevalence of 26%, unidentified nematode larvae 14%, followed by Ancylostoma spp and Trichuris spp with 4% each. Among the protozoa, 6% of unidentified coccidia were detected, and Toxoplasma gondii with 2%. All of the parasitic species found were found in animals and some were zoonotic, which implies a risk of infection for park users who maintain contact with the soil and do not comply with proper hygiene standards

Snake bites remain a significant public health issue in Sri Lanka due to prevalent myths and misconceptions that can hinder effective treatment and increase the risk of complications. This study aimed to debunk common myths and provide accurate information to guide appropriate responses and ensure proper management. A cross-sectional study was conducted in a village in Sri Lanka's North Central region, interviewing heads of households using a pre-designed questionnaire. Key findings revealed several harmful misconceptions. The belief that cutting and sucking the bite site removes venom is ineffective and can introduce bacteria, while applying a tourniquet can restrict blood flow and lead to severe complications. Identifying the snake species is not crucial for antivenom treatment, as most antivenoms are polyvalent. Additionally, the notion that snake charmers can safely handle and cure snake bites is unfounded, and the belief in the effectiveness of certain plants or herbs for neutralizing venom is scientifically unsupported. These findings highlight the urgent need for public health interventions to address snake bite myths and promote evidence-based practices. By disseminating accurate information and improving access to healthcare, the burden of snake bites in Sri Lanka can be significantly reduced

More than 46 million children are at risk of intestinal parasite infection. The aim was to characterize intestinal parasitosis in children from three communities. The prevalence was 65%. 73% monoparasitized, Enterobius vermicularis and Blastocystis sp. were the most isolated. 24% biparasitized and 3% triparasitized. All are of low socioeconomic level

The authors propose to interpret and demonstrate the linguistic identity of Ecuadorian emigrants who have gone to more developed countries, especially the United States, Canada, Spain, Germany and Great Britain. For this purpose, they draw on testimonial works written by the protagonists, whose publications range from 1996 to 2015. Following the orientation of theories derived from the social and human sciences, particularly linguistics, after the application of the methodology and techniques of bibliographic-documentary research, the authors conclude that there is a significant representation of four elements linked to the language and dialect used by emigrants while they remain outside Ecuador: problems faced by Ecuadorians due to lack of knowledge of the language used in the countries of arrival; interpersonal communication strategies used by emigrants until they acquire basic notions of the new language; differences in the use of Spanish between Ecuadorians and Spaniards; and assimilation of Spanish as a strategy for the integration of Ecuadorians in Spain.

Lo que aprendí en la peluquería (2010), by María Fernanda Ampuero, is a chronicle work in which the author constructs a physiognomy of memory and identity from her condition as a testifying migrant. This early text by Ampuero allows us to identify a conventional and traditionalist discourse of memory and identity, categories that constantly evolve throughout her narrative, since in other publications the author recomposes her gaze towards these categories by making it evident that family and collective memory are diluted as well as the rootedness to Ecuador. Thus, in this work an approach is made to the traits that characterize the author’s personal identity through various identity expressions that are integrated with memory within her chronicles. In this way, the crises, thoughts, changes,metamorphoses, misunderstandings, positionings in which the migrant subject ofthis work of analysis is inserted will be put in dialogue.

In the context of Chilean post-dictatorship narrative, Rodrigo Ramos Bañados takes us to the sociocultural setting of northern Chile, a place that has become the main theme of his literary work. Certainly, as a journalist and writer, he has greater advantages to observe the symptoms of migration and give voice to the protagonists of a dangerous journey in search of safety and work. Through his novel Ciudad berraca (2018) he shows us a form of violence suffered by Colombian citizens at the time of emigrating to Chile, illusioned with the job opportunities offered by this country and also to overcome the suffering left behind, without the threat of guerrillas and drug trafficking.

This article evokes the life and work of two almost adolescent poets, born in Montevideo, who die at a very young age: Ducasse and Laforgue, whose works are banned or very little known by their contemporaries but who, with the passing of time, become the spearhead of avant-garde movements or the inspiration for later movements or poets: the surrealists,T.S. Eliot. The same as that of another poet, Supervielle, also born in Montevideo, of long life, who almost testifies the entire twentieth century, and who also marks important guidelines for the poetry of the world. Friend of the Ecuadorian poet Alfredo Gangotena, to whom he dedicates a long evocation on the day of his death.

In the context of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy and the rapprochement promoted by several American institutions at the beginning of World War II, the 1940s were a time of intense exchanges between American and Ecuadorian intellectuals, a fruitful parenthesis after the anti-imperialist stances of the previous decades and before the ideological and political confrontations of the Cold War. The author studies this special moment through the exchanges between four American intellectuals, Albert B. Franklin, Thornton Wilder, Willis Knapp Jones and John Dos Passos, and three members of the Grupo de Guayaquil: Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco and Enrique Gil Gilbert, based on unpublished letters and documents, and with an emphasis on the literary contest of the Pan-American Union (1941).

The poetry of Rubén Astudillo y Astudillo, one of the key authors in Ecuadorian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, can be read from the postulates of existentialism, especially in dialogue with the thought of Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, in the first instance and attending to his first collections of poems (from the late 1950s until the end of the 1979s). From the 1980s onwards, his work can be read from the ideas of mysticism, in dialogue with Russel and Paz, and from the ideas of memory and childhood, taking up Bachelard’s concepts. This article proposes this reading for the work of the poet from Cuenca.

In this article, the author goes through the traces of the modern subject to reflect on the conditions of current society, characterized by the fading of the values of humanism, causing nihilistic positions not necessarily identified with the nietzschean one. On the contrary, he warns about the urgency of proposing a dialectical nihilism that reveals the historicity of principles such as democracy, equality, justice, freedom, respect for nature, peace, animalism, speciesism, among others; and that, at the same time, shows its constant actuality to escape from the petrification caused by the exercise of power. Dialectical nihilism that does not ignore the historical struggles of those condemned by capital, but updates them in the opposite direction to the neoliberal system.