Kenya. In early 2022, the viral acute illness resurfaced and hit Kenya. On January 12, 2022, the first case was discovered, with over 14 patients suffering from fever, jaundice, and joint andmuscle pains. On March 4, 2022, a yellow fever outbreak re-emerged in Kenya, affecting 11 wards...
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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...
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...
In Angola, the epidemic began in December 2015 and the laboratory-confirmed outbreak was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 21, 2016.1 Angola has had 2023 suspected cases and 258 deaths as of April 26, 2016.1 China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and K...
The Committee was reassured to hear that the outbreak in Uganda is now over, and the imported cases in China and Kenya have not led to further transmission. The Committee noted that the exceptional use of the fractional dose strategy for yellow fever vaccination during the recent campaign in Ki...
The largest outbreak of yellow fever of the 21st century in the Americas began in 2016, with intense circulation in the southeastern states of Brazil, particularly in sylvatic environments near densely populated areas including the metropolitan region of São Paulo city (MRSP) during 2017–2018. ...
First recorded outbreak of yellow fever in Kenya, 1992-1993. I. Epidemiologic investigations. Outbreaks of yellow fever (YF) have never been recorded in Kenya. However, in September 1992, cases of hemorrhagic fever (HF) were reported in the Kerio Va... EJ Sanders,AA Marfin,PM Tukei,......
When testing a person with the signs and symptoms of yellow fever during a documented yellow fever outbreak, confirmation should not be necessary. In fatal cases, the characteristic histopathologic liver changes (e.g., midzonal necrosis and Councilman's bodies) are diagnostic. IHC with poly- or...
In addition to Minas Gerais State, yellow fever cases are expanding to the States of São Paulo, Bahia, and especially to the State of Espirito Santo. This outbreak is considered the largest outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil in the last 10 years. WHO has updated his recommendations for ...