Health Alerts

Brazil: New YF case confirmed. This week it was confirmed that a 76 year-old resident of the Itatiba/Jundiaí region (São Paulo state) had succumbed to yellow fever earlier this month and another case is under investigation. Read more. Under 80kms to the south, in the state capital of São Paulo, monkeys infected with the yellow fever virus have been identified in parks in northern districts prompting authorities to mount a campaign to ensure residents of the region are vaccinated. The large outbreak that started late in 2016 and produced 777 yellow fever cases (with 261 deaths) was declared over in early September. Read more. A research letter in the current Emerging Infectious Diseases journal has described the isolation of yellow fever virus RNA from urine and semen samples taken from a man who had contracted the infection in Brazil in late December 2016/January 2017.