The Transmission of Yellow Fever

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

Case report: probable transmission of vaccine strain of yellow fever virus to an infant via breast milk.

The 17D yellow fever vaccine is a live-virus vaccine that has been in use since the 1940s. The incidence of encephalitis after yellow fever vaccination among young infants is much higher than among children older than nine months of age. Until recently, avoidance of vaccination by breastfeeding women who have received yellow fever vaccine had been based on theoretical grounds only. We report th...

Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization

The US Army Yellow Fever Board was established to discover the etiology of yellow fever. In Cuba in 1900, the Board completed a series of classic experiments that showed the role of the mosquito in yellow fever transmission. Attending Private John Kissinger, who volunteered to be infected with yellow fever, are (from left) Major William C. Gorgas, the sanitation officer for Havana who would go ...

Epidemiological characteristics of yellow fever in Brazil, 2000-2012.

OBJECTIVE this study aims to describe the epidemiological characteristics of yellow fever in Brazil in the period 2000-2012. METHODS this is a descriptive ecological epidemiological study, using information from Ministry of Health databases. RESULTS 326 cases of yellow fever were confirmed in Brazil during this period, with 156 deaths and an average case fatality rate of 47.8%; the young ma...

Transmission of Yellow Fever by the Mosquito. Hydrofluoric Inhalations in Phthisis

his successful attempts in producing experimental yellow fever by means of the mosquito's sting, it is to be inferred that these insects are the habitual agents of its transmission. It cannot be denied, however, that other such agents may and probably do occasionally occur, but not being endowed with the same facilities for rapid and extensive operation, their influence becomes insignificant as...

Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever Serotype 3 Viruses Cocirculation in Côte d’Ivoire in 2008

Aim of study. To describe the emergence of dengue 3 virus in Côte d’Ivoire during a yellow fever outbreak which occurred in 2008. Materials and methods. Sera from suspected cases of yellow fever as well as contacts of yellow fever confirmed cases and imported dengue fever cases were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) antiyellow fever virus and anti-dengue virus (for IgM antibodies to yellow feve...