In 2022, a yellow fever outbreak re-emerged in Kenya. • The only options for curbing its spread are through vaccination and preventive measures. Abstract Yellow fever (YF) is a viral acute hemorrhagic illness caused by infected mosquitoes of the flavivirus family. The first yellow fever outbr...
Until recent political events, Kenya was a popular tourist destination for European and North American travelers. The International Health Regulations1 consider Kenya as an area or country with risk of yellow fever transmission as the vector and primary host are present. The World Health Organization...
In East Africa, outbreaks are less frequent but have been reported from Sudan in 1940, 1959, and 2004; Ethiopia in 1960 and 1966; and Kenya in 1936 and 1992–1993. Although no human disease was reported in the intervening years, low-level virus transmission occurs. In East African countries...
Yellow fever and its emergence as a deadly epidemic disease is a model on how diseases emerge to become a large recurrent epidemic disease in urban populations. Originally an African virus unknown to the western world prior to the 1600s, was introduced to the Western Hemisphere by the transporta...
Yellow fever virus susceptibility of two mosquito vectors from Kenya, East Africa 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 300 作者:BR Ellis,RC Sang,Horne Kate McElroy,H Stephen,DM Wesson 摘要: Yellow fever is an unpredictable disease of increasing epidemic threat in East Africa. Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti ...
Recent epidemics of yellow fever in eastern Africa have stimulated serological surveys in the Karamoja district of Uganda, the northern frontier district of Kenya and the Giohar district of Somalia. All sera collected in the surveys were screened for group B arbovirus antibody using the HI test....
This decade has seen a resurgence of yellow fever (YF) that has also affected travelers with a record number of international travelers infected by YF virus including the first documented importation of YF into Asia. Recent Findings The recent resurgence of YF has been attributed largely to sub-...
For example, if you are gorilla tracking in Rwanda or Uganda and combining this with a safari in Kenya or Tanzania, you will need to get the yellow fever vaccine. If you plan to see the migration in both Kenya and Tanzania, you will need to get the yellow fever vaccine. If you are ...
Yellow fever: an emerging threat for Kenya and other east African countries. Yellow fever (YF) is a well known disease that had plagued the tropics relentlessly until an effective vaccine was developed. Although the yellow fever vac... EJ Sanders,PM Tukei - 《East African Medical Journal》 ...
Nigeria) and genotype II (represented mainly by strains from the western West Africa, e.g., Senegal, Guinea Bissau); the East and Central Africa genotype (Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zaire, Uganda); the East Africa genotype (Uganda, Kenya); and the Angola genotype (1971 and...