New diagnostic tools for yellow fever

[For a new history of yellow fever and the yellow fever vaccine in Brazil].

A historiografia das doenças e das ciências médico-biológicas no Brasil ainda prima por realizar pesquisas que, de regra, isolam algumas poucas variáveis, na tarefa explicativa do objeto estudado, convergindo para a produção de versões simplificadoras e caricaturais da realidade científica e médico-sanitária nacional. Postando-se contra esta cômoda tendência, a obra coordenada por Jaime Larry B...

Yellow Fever Vaccination: An Issue for Non-endemic Tropical Countries

Yellow fever.

1MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. MSc in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). PhD in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. Fellow American College of Physicians, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelit...

Yellow fever

Yellow fever.

With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation phase to infecting again.