Maps of Angola showing month-to-month spread of yellow fever. Courtesy the World Health Organization. Yellow fever is a persistent problem in West Africa, where the virus cycles between monkeys ...

The seasonal influence of climate and environment on yellow fever transmission across Africa. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases , 2018; 12 (3): e0006284 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006284 Cite This ...

In 2021, nine countries in the WHO African Region (Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic (CAR), Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Republic of Congo,) ...

Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the tropics of South America, Central America, and Africa. According to a new ...

Chad: A yellow fever PCR-positive case with negative serology was reported on 18 January 2024 from a patient sampled on 10 October 2023, in the Léré district of the Mayo-Kebbi Ouest region.

Yellow fever is a viral infection transmitted by a bite from infected mosquitoes most commonly found in parts of South America and Africa. When transmitted to humans, the yellow fever virus can ...

Yellow fever has been stamped out in the Americas; it still rages on the coast of West Africa. Ten years ago Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered that American yellow fever was caused by a tiny organism ...

In this double-blind, randomized, noninferiority trial in Uganda and Kenya, we assigned adults with no history of yellow fever vaccination or infection to receive vaccination with the Institut ...

The burden of yellow fever in any given area is known to be heavily dependent on climate, particularly rainfall and temperature which can impact both mosquito life cycle and viral replication. Now ...