Yellow fever in Brazil: Epidemiological aspects and implications for travelers

The current epidemiological situation of yellow fever (YF) in Brazil constitutes a public health emergency, due to the potential threat of the re-urbanization of YF in this country. The last report of transmission of urban YF in Brazil was described in 1942, in the state of Acre in the northern region of the country. Since then, wild, non-urban transmission has come to predominate with cyclical outbreak records at regular intervals of five to seven years as observed up to 1997 [1].

Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - May 8, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: T ânia do Socorro Souza Chaves, Tomas Orduna, Alejandro Lepetic, Alejandra Macchi, Sergio Verbanaz, Alejandro Risquez, Cecilia Perret, Sofía Echazarreta, Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales, Susana Cristina Lloveras Tags: Editorial Source Type: research