Is YouTube an accurate and reliable source of yellow fever information during outbreaks?

Yellow fever is a viral reemerging disease, which is endemic in tropical regions of Africa and the Americas. Although an effective yellow fever vaccine is available, outbreaks have occurred in several African countries in the last decade, causing high case fatality rates [1]. The latest one was detected in Angola in late 2015, and more recently, an ongoing outbreak of yellow fever started in Brazil in December 2016. The current outbreak spreads beyond the borders of Brazil, because several countries in the Americas are now considered at high risk of yellow fever [2].

Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - July 13, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Yeimer Ortiz-Mart ínez, Fernando González-Ferreira, Leonel Vega-Useche, Mauro Álvarez-Ricardo Source Type: research