Sentences with phrase «yellow fever outbreaks»

Researchers have previously used environmental measures to map areas most at risk of yellow fever outbreaks.

This would allow the facilitation of early interventions in emerging yellow fever outbreaks — which is key to prevent large scale outbreaks.»

These shortages have coincided with some of the largest yellow fever outbreaks in half a century.

A yellow fever outbreak in Brazil led to leaders calling for a country - wide vaccination campaign this week.

Dr. Luke Blackburn was a respected medical doctor and philanthropist until he allegedly attempted to create a yellow fever outbreak targeting Northern civilians and soldiers during the Civil War.

Travel Alert: Brazil - Ongoing Yellow Fever Outbreak The CDC has issued a Level 2 Travel Alert because of an ongoing yellow fever 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).

The last reported yellow fever outbreak in North America was in New Orleans in 1905.

The yellow fever outbreak in Uganda is unrelated to the outbreak in Angola.

During the yellow fever outbreak this year, public health clinics in Belém, Brazil, vaccinated hundreds of people daily.

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.

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.

Brazil recently experienced its worst outbreak of yellow fever in decades, with 792 confirmed cases.

«A large urban outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.

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.

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.

Brazil recently experienced its worst outbreak of yellow fever in decades with hundreds of cases, some just east of Ilha Grande.

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

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.

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.

On January 16, 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated yellow fever vaccination recommendations for Brazil to include anyone traveling to or living in Espírito Santo, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro states, and certain cities in Bahia state, in addition to areas where vaccination had been recommended before the recent outbreak.

«Ebola, and more recently Zika and yellow fever, have demonstrated that we do not yet have a reliable or robust global system for preventing, detecting, and responding to disease outbreaks,» they add.

Because the immune system mounts an inadequate protective response against HIV, an HIV vaccine most likely will not be as effective as proven vaccines used to control or end global outbreaks, such as yellow fever and polio vaccines, which are nearly 100 percent effective.

«With diseases spread by biting insects, such as Zika, standard quarantine measures are useless, so stopping an outbreak in its tracks requires a vaccine - led approach, as we are currently seeing carried out for Zika's relative, yellow fever, in Angola and neighbouring countries.