After ruling out Lassa fever, plasma samples from these epidemiologically-linked cases were sent to the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria, where we carried out metagenomic sequencing which implicated yellow ...
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In Nigeria in 1987, an epidemic of an estimated 39,000 cases and 8400 deaths occurred in urban areas. Other major Ae. aegypti-borne epidemics occurred in 1965 and 1979 in Senegal and in 1971 in Angola. Countries and regions with yellow fever virus transmission. Shading is based on recent ...
ABUJA, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- An outbreak of yellow fever in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina has claimed 24 lives so far, a local health official confirmed on Wednesday. The yellow fever deaths were recorded in two local government areas of the northern state in a latest outbreak beg...
Vaccine: The Yellow Fever Vaccine (YF-VAX), a live attenuated vaccine, is given as a single dose in an authorized, licensed center. The vaccine once reconstituted must be used within 1h or discarded. Vaccination should be documented on the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis ...
is required against yellow fever for travellers to Egypt (9 months or over) in the form of an international vaccination certificate as specified in Annex 6 of the IHR, and for travellers having transited for more than 12 hours in an airport of a country with risk of yellow fe...
Achi said health experts, including the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, had intervened in the past two weeks, with a view of ending the yellow fever epidemic. The official said among the steps so far taken by local health officials to stem the spread of the outbreak included the adequate...
Yellow Fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease endemic in tropical Africa and Latin America and is transmitted through infected mosquitoes. The earliest outbreak of yellow fever in Nigeria was reported in Lagos in 1864 with subsequent regular outbrea
‘worst YF outbreak in 30 years’ occurring at the present time. Many of these, and other countries, will demand a YF certificate from travelers as a condition of entry to their country. Individuals planning to travel internationally and for more detailed information on the YF vaccine, ...
Over the course of a 1969 yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria, 103 patients were evaluated. Of these, 14 were aged less than 19 years old. Signs of CNS involvement were described in 25% of the patients during the epidemic and 8 were reported to have suffered generalizedseizures[17]. ...