{"id":546469,"date":"2025-05-09T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=546469"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:12:28","slug":"unwanted-microbes-in-the-blood-of-people-who-collect-recyclables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/unwanted-microbes-in-the-blood-of-people-who-collect-recyclables\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwanted microbes in the blood of people who collect recyclables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_546470\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-546470 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-catadores-2024-10-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-catadores-2024-10-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-catadores-2024-10-800-250x192.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-catadores-2024-10-800-700x537.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-catadores-2024-10-800-120x92.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Marcello Casal Jr.\u2009\/\u2009Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/span>Residents from the outskirts of the Federal District sort through household and commercial waste<span class=\"media-credits\">Marcello Casal Jr.\u2009\/\u2009Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The precarious working conditions of recyclable material collectors increases the spread of disease-causing viruses. Researchers from the University of Bras\u00edlia (UnB), the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), the Butantan Institute, and the BioCampus Bio-medico University of Rome analyzed the metagenomes of blood samples from 120 people who collected recyclables at the Cidade Estrutural landfill near Bras\u00edlia National Park in the Federal District in 2017. The majority (71%) were women. The results were compared against 60 blood donors from the Ribeir\u00e3o Preto Hematology Center. The samples were tested together and some contained nucleic acids from viruses such as HIV (human immunodeficiency viruses), HCV (hepatitis C), dengue, and Chikungunya, which were not found in the control group. Cidade Estrutural is home to around 45,000 people. Some 2,000 people worked at the town\u2019s landfill before it was decommissioned in 2017; it now only receives construction waste. Many collectors still live in the area, working for cooperatives and associations contracted by urban cleaning services in the Federal District or working for themselves, collecting materials from the street (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/rimtsp\/a\/W8K5XVg69jnNkWFsQYgmJyK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em><\/a>, August).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recyclable waste collectors exposed to diseases due to poor working conditions","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[260,261],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-546469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-public-health","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546481,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546469\/revisions\/546481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546469"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=546469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}