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...
The article focuses on the cases of yellow fever in Africa and South America in 2007. It says that 59 cases of laboratory-confirmed yellow fevers are reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) including the death of 41 people. In 2006, the Yellow Fever Initiative was launched to fight...
Yellow fever: a decade of reemergence. Since the 1980s, yellow fever has reemerged across Africa and in South America. The total of 18 735 yellow fever cases and 4522 deaths reported from 1987 t... S,E,Robertson,... - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: ...
FP Pinheiro,APTD Rosa,MAP Moraes,... - 《American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene》 被引量: 74发表: 1978年 Yellow fever in Africa and South America, 2007. This article describes the outbreak situation and case detection rates of yellow fever in Africa and South America during 2007, ...
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...
Yellow fever virus (YFV), a member of the Flavivirus genus, is the prototype virus of the Flaviviridae family. It is transmitted to susceptible hosts (humans or non-human primates) by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is considered endemic in parts of Africa and South America, including...
Examples of this changing epidemiology are the spread of the dengue viruses through- out Asia, the Americas, and most recently Florida; resur- gence of yellow fever in South America and Africa; spread of West Nile virus through North and Central America; and the spread of Japanese encephalitis...
More than 700,000 trips were made by residents in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (EWNI) in 2015 to tropical countries endemic for yellow fever, a potentially deadly, yet vaccine-preventable disease transmitted by mosquitoes. The aim of this study was to map the geographical accessibility ...
Due to the risk of severe vaccine-associated adverse events, yellow fever vaccination in Brazil is only recommended in areas considered at risk for disease. From September 2008 through June 2009, two outbreaks of yellow fever in previously unvaccinated p