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That's why it was already there on the ground and, suddenly, it became a public health emergency, in which there is a direct association between this fact and land occupation, deforestation and housing construction, that is, you now there is a disorganization of ecosystems that were previously in balance and this exposes animals and humans to new pathogens”, he adds.

That's how the fungus arrived in wild and stray cats, the "leap" for humans was relatively easy, in which, after all, these felines are extremely common in many Brazilian neighborhoods.

Even though the occurrence and spread of diseases did not come rarely, children play with them and adults welcome having them around, as a way to control rat infestations, that is, the whole context of environmental imbalance. added to the proximity to animals, it facilitated contact with the fungus, which started to cause the disease in thousands of people in the last two decades.