The absence of yellow fever in Asia: history, hypotheses, vector dispersal, possibility of YF in Asia, and other enigmas

G Kuno - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the recent epidemics of yellow fever in Angola and Brazil as well as the importation of
cases to China in 2016, there has been an increased interest in the century-old enigma …

Mechanisms of Yellow Fever Transmission: Gleaning the Overlooked Records of Importance and Identifying Problems, Puzzles, Serious Issues, Surprises and …

G Kuno - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
In viral disease research, few diseases can compete with yellow fever for the volume of
literature, historical significance, richness of the topics and the amount of strong interest …

[HTML][HTML] Yellow fever cases in Asia: primed for an epidemic

S Wasserman, PA Tambyah, PL Lim - International Journal of Infectious …, 2016 - Elsevier
There is currently an emerging outbreak of yellow fever in Angola. Cases in infected
travellers have been reported in a number of other African countries, as well as in China …

[HTML][HTML] Yellow fever in the Americas: the growing concern about new epidemics

Y Ortiz-Martínez, AM Patiño-Barbosa… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Yellow fever (YF) is a haemorrhagic viral disease with a high case fatality rate. It is
considered a reemerging infectious disease of remarkable importance. During the last …

Re-emergence of yellow fever in Brazil during 2016–2019: challenges, lessons learned, and perspectives

P de Oliveira Figueiredo, AG Stoffella-Dutra… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Yellow fever (YF) is a re-emerging viral zoonosis caused by the Yellow Fever virus (YFV),
affecting humans and non-human primates (NHP). YF is endemic in South America and …

The enigma of yellow fever in East Africa

BR Ellis, ADT Barrett - Reviews in medical virology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a safe and effective vaccine, there are approximately 200 000 cases, including 30
000 deaths, due to yellow fever virus (YFV) each year, of which 90% are in Africa. The …

[HTML][HTML] Yellow fever reemergence in Venezuela–implications for international travelers and Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

AJ Rodríguez-Morales, DK Bonilla-Aldana… - Travel medicine and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the last few years, Venezuela has been the epicentre for multiple concurrent epidemics
(syndemics)[1] of emerging and reemerging infectious and tropical diseases. These events …

Recent sylvatic yellow fever virus transmission in Brazil: the news from an old disease

NIO Silva, L Sacchetto, IM De Rezende, GS Trindade… - Virology journal, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Reemergence of yellow fever virus in southeastern Brazil, 2017–2018: What sparked the spread?

JI Rosser, K Nielsen-Saines, E Saad… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background The 2017–2018 yellow fever virus (YFV) outbreak in southeastern Brazil
marked a reemergence of YFV in urban states that had been YFV-free for nearly a century …

What to expect from the 2017 yellow fever outbreak in Brazil?

EV Rossetto, RN Angerami, EJA Luna - Revista do Instituto de …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
In the early beginning of January 2017, the Brazilian Ministry of Health notified the World
Health Organization (WHO) about an increasing number of confirmed cases of yellow fever …