Yellow Fever caused by a virus, which is spread via the bite of an infected mosquito. It is found in tropical areas of Africa. Yellow Fever in Africa is recognised in two different forms - urban and jungle. 'Urban Yellow Fever' occurs when an infected person enters a densely populated are...
Yellow fever in Southern AfricaThe article presents information on the risks and entry requirement for yellow fever vaccine for travelers in Southern African countries.Pulse
Yellow fever was transported during the slave trade in the 15th and 16th centuries from Africa to the Americas where the virus encountered favorable ecological conditions that allowed creation of a sustainable sylvatic cycle. Despite effective vector control and immunization programs for nearly a century...
Yellow fever is an acute infectious disease caused by the yellow fever virus, a flavivirus transmitted in tropical or subtropical areas, mainly through the bite of infected Aedes spp mosquitoes in Africa or Haemagogus spp mosquitoes in South America. On both continents, both jungle (sylvatic) and...
Scientific American reports from the Democratic Republic of the Congo on health care workers' inability to deliver the yellow fever vaccine where it is most needed. Go to www.ScientificAmerican.com/oct2016/yellow-fever
Yellow fever probably originated in West Africa and was transmitted to the Americas during the slave trade in the 16th century (University of Nebraska, 2001). The severe haemorrhagic form was commonly called 'yellow jack' in the 18th and 19th centuries because of the jaundice that sometimes ...
Background: Yellow fever (YF) is an acute viral haemorrhagic fever transmitted to humans by infected Aedes mosquitoes. Symptoms can vary in intensity, from a mild fever to a jaundice that is associated with widespread hemorrhage leading to death in 20-50% of cases. At present there is no sp...
Yellow fever virus (discussed in detail in this chapter) was the first arbovirus identified in the 1800s as responsible for large epidemics of hemorrhagic fever in Africa and North, Central, and South America. By 1960 scientists recognized serologically two distinct arboviruses: the group A arbovir...
The revised global yellow fever risk map and recommendations for vaccination, 2010: consensus of the Informal WHO Working Group on Geographic Risk for Yellow Fever. Lancet Infect Dis. 2011;11(8):622–632. 4. Hill DR. Mapping the risk of yellow fever infection. Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2012;...
Africa under NOBLE to report on yellow fever, some details of which have been given by-GuiTERAS in Havana. The statistical methods which amongst the mixed population of America serve to reveal past epidemics of yellow fever are not applicable to W. Africa. GUITERAS has shown that when yellow ...