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Yellow fever control in Cameroon: Where are we now and where are we going? [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2008 Background Cameroon is one of 12 African countries that bear most of the global burden of yellow fever. In 2002 the country developed a five-year strategic plan for yellow fever control, which included strategies for prevention as well as rapid detection
Mimbouga Julienne +6 more
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Estimating the number of unvaccinated Chinese workers against yellow fever in Angola [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background A yellow fever epidemic occurred in Angola in 2016 with 884 laboratory confirmed cases and 373 deaths. Eleven unvaccinated Chinese nationals working in Angola were also infected and imported the disease to China, thereby presenting the first ...
A. Wilder-Smith, E. Massad
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Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, 2018 The yellow fever (YF) virus is a Flavivirus, transmitted by Haemagogus, Sabethes or Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The disease is endemic in forest areas in Africa and Latin America leading to epizootics in monkeys that constitute the reservoir of the disease.
Marcelo Nóbrega Litvoc +2 more
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PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Despite the government and global health initiatives toward yellow fever epidemic control in Ghana, the country continues to witness sporadic outbreaks of yellow fever mostly among the unvaccinated population and suspected migrates(nomadic) who enter the
Abdul-Wahab Inusah +4 more
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Viscerotropic disease and acute uveitis following yellow fever vaccination: a case report
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Yellow fever vaccine exists for over 80 years and is considered to be relatively safe. However, in rare cases it can produce serious neurotropic and viscerotropic complications.
Lev Volkov +10 more
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Why Yellow Fever Isn't Flattering: A Case Against Racial Fetishes [PDF]
, 2016 Most discussions of racial fetish center on the question of whether it is caused by negative racial stereotypes. In this paper I adopt a different strategy, one that begins with the experiences of those targeted by racial fetish rather than those who ...
Robin, Zheng
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Current Trends of Yellow Fever in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
UMYU Journal of Microbiology Research, 2019 Yellow fever is a viral infection caused by yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of an infected female mosquito (Aedes and Haemogogus species).
Abdulkadir, B. +10 more
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Re-thinking yellow fever vaccines: fighting old foes with new generation vaccines
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 Despite the existence of a highly efficient yellow fever vaccine, yellow fever reemergence throughout Africa and the Americas has put 900 million people in 47 countries at risk of contracting the disease.
Gerardo Montalvo Zurbia-Flores +2 more
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Phylogeny of Yellow Fever Virus, Uganda, 2016
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 In April 2016, a yellow fever outbreak was detected in Uganda. Removal of contaminating ribosomal RNA in a clinical sample improved the sensitivity of next-generation sequencing. Molecular analyses determined the Uganda yellow fever outbreak was distinct
Holly R. Hughes +5 more
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A mathematically assisted reconstruction of the initial focus of the yellow fever outbreak in Buenos Aires (1871) [PDF]
, 2013 We discuss the historic mortality record corresponding to the initial focus of the yellow fever epidemic outbreak registered in Buenos Aires during the year 1871 as compared to simulations of a stochastic population dynamics model.
Fernández, M. L. +3 more
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