Brazil recently experienced its worst
outbreak of yellow fever in decades with hundreds of cases, some just east of Ilha Grande.
«A large urban
outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.
Brazil recently experienced its worst
outbreak of yellow fever in decades, with 792 confirmed cases.
Early in his career, he implemented a quarantine to shut down a cholera epidemic and he later led another that successfully stopped
an outbreak of yellow fever in the Mississippi River Valley.
Given that
outbreaks of yellow fever in urban settings have the potential for rapid spread and that significant yellow fever epidemics are ongoing in Angola, DRC and Uganda, a range of options for response by EU / EEA Member States are presented in the updated rapid risk assessment.
Read the rapid risk assessment:
Outbreaks of yellow fever in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, first update: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/RRA-Yellow%20fever-first-update-Angola-China-DRC-Uganda-May-2016.pdf
While tropical temperatures appear to contribute, historical
outbreaks of yellow fever and dengue in the United States as far north as New England show that mosquitos can indeed carry and transmit disease in more temperate climates during summer months.
Not exact matches
The shot to protect against
yellow fever had been a recommendation for Americans visiting Brazil and other South American countries, but raising the travel advisory to a level two alert reflects the danger
of the current
outbreak.
These shortages have coincided with some
of the largest
yellow fever outbreaks in half a century.
Travel Alert: Brazil - Ongoing
Yellow Fever Outbreak The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Alert because of an ongoing yellow fever outbreak in B
Yellow Fever Outbreak The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Alert because of an ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Br
Fever Outbreak The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Alert because of an ongoing yellow fever outbreak in
Outbreak The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Alert because
of an ongoing
yellow fever outbreak in B
yellow fever outbreak in Br
fever outbreak in
outbreak in Brazil.
Brazil has been battling an unusually high number
of yellow fever cases since December 2016, with at least 326 confirmed cases, including 220 deaths, and hundreds
of additional cases under investigation — making it Brazil's worst
yellow fever outbreak among humans in decades according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
This would allow the facilitation
of early interventions in emerging
yellow fever outbreaks — which is key to prevent large scale
outbreaks.»
Researchers have previously used environmental measures to map areas most at risk
of yellow fever outbreaks.
During the Brazilian
outbreak, health officials nationwide asked people to report sightings
of sick or dead monkeys so they could test for
yellow fever.
They received reports
of 5300 dead monkeys since the
outbreak started, with an unknown number related to
yellow fever.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently brokered deals in several African and South American countries to vaccinate 584 million people for
yellow fever over the next decade, with a goal
of eliminating all
outbreaks worldwide by 2026.
During the
yellow fever outbreak this year, public health clinics in Belém, Brazil, vaccinated hundreds
of people daily.
In their forthcoming paper in the Journal
of Medical Entomology, «Factors
of Concern Regarding Zika and Other Aedes aegypti - Transmitted Viruses in the United States,» Max J. Moreno - Madriñán
of the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and independent research entomologist Michael Turell argue that a leading factor in
outbreaks of Zika,
yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya — all transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito — is low socioeconomic conditions in developing countries.