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The incidence and mortality of yellow fever in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Understanding the occurrence of yellow fever epidemics is critical for targeted interventions and control efforts to reduce the burden of disease. We assessed data on the yellow fever incidence and mortality rates in Africa.
Akuoma U. Nwaiwu +4 more
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Changing epidemiology of yellow fever virus in Oyo State, Nigeria
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Yellow Fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease endemic in tropical Africa and Latin America and is transmitted through infected mosquitoes.
Bassey Enya Bassey +9 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016 Yellow fever is an infectious and non-contagious disease caused by an arbovirus, the yellow fever virus. The agent is maintained in jungle cycles among primates as vertebrate hosts and mosquitoes, especially Aedes in Africa, and Haemagogus and Sabethes in America.
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background Case fatality risk (CFR), commonly referred to as a case fatality ratio or rate, represents the probability of a disease case being fatal.
Joseph L. Servadio +2 more
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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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Yellow Fever Outbreak in Eastern Senegal, 2020–2021
Viruses, 2021 Yellow fever virus remains a major threat in low resource countries in South America and Africa despite the existence of an effective vaccine. In Senegal and particularly in the eastern part of the country, periodic sylvatic circulation has been ...
M. Diagne +22 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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Recent sylvatic yellow fever virus transmission in Brazil: the news from an old disease
Virology Journal, 2020 Yellow fever (YF) is an acute viral disease, affecting humans and non-human primates (NHP), caused by the yellow fever virus (YFV). Despite the existence of a safe vaccine, YF continues to cause morbidity and mortality in thousands of people in Africa ...
Natalia Ingrid Oliveira Silva +6 more
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