In the new work, Tini Garske of Imperial College London and colleagues, considered the effect of seasonal dynamics on
yellow fever transmission.
The seasonal model accurately captured both the geographic and temporal heterogeneities in
yellow fever transmission and did not perform worse than the annual model relying only on geographic distribution.
Trinidad and Tobago is the only Caribbean destination proper that poses a risk of
Yellow Fever transmission, and only on Trinidad, not Tobago.
Not exact matches
The model confirmed and quantified that, even in areas with high
transmission potential for
yellow fever, the risk varies throughout the year.
Currently, all regions in Angola should be considered as areas at high risk of
transmission of
yellow fever.
In the EU / EEA, the risk of
yellow fever virus being introduced is limited to unvaccinated viraemic travellers coming from areas with active local
transmission.
Two
transmission cycles of
yellow fever exist in South America.
There are 3500 species of mosquito — the urban
transmission of Zika (and dengue, chikungunya and
yellow fever) is by two species that have nothing to do with the anophelines that transmit malaria.