Yellow fever in a Brazilian family returning from vacation in an endemic area: relevant clinical features and epidemiological issues.

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

Dear Editor 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 in the State of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil. Since then, an apparent expansion of the transmission area and an increasing number of suspected and confirmed cases have been reported. Regarding this ep...

A Belgian traveler who acquired yellow fever in the Gambia.

A 47-year-old Belgian woman acquired yellow fever during a 1-week vacation in The Gambia; she had never been vaccinated against yellow fever. She died of massive gastrointestinal bleeding 7 days after the onset of the first symptoms. This dramatic case demonstrates that it is important for persons to be vaccinated against yellow fever before they travel to countries where yellow fever is endemi...

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

Is a dose of 17D vaccine in the current context of Yellow Fever enough?

The availability of the effective 17D vaccine as well as an eradication program of Aedes aegypti dramatically decreased the urban Yellow Fever (YF) incidence in Americas.1,2 However, in the last decades, the YF transmission was reported outside endemic area (Amazon region), with extension of viral circulation toward to densely populated and highly Aedes-infested regions and low vaccination cove...

Vaccination for patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a pressing need.

vaccine chart of patients with rheumatic disorders. In addition, knowing that the specifi c prescription of vaccines during the clinical follow-up of those patients has a positive impact on the increase of vaccine coverage, work groups of specialists have been formed to establish vaccine guidelines in rheumatology, refl ecting an increasing concern worldwide in recent years.8,9 The Rheumatoid A...