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Additional Yellow Fever Alerts South America
Thursday, 29 January, 2009
The detection of Yellow Fever in monkeys may presage an outbreak in humans. In Argentina an alert has been issued for a number of northern provinces bordering Brazil and Paraguay. For tourists this essentially means Missiones Province and the Iguacu Falls. In Venezuela an outbreak “of great magnitude” in monkeys in the states of Aragua and Guárico has resulted in a National Alert recommending vaccination for anyone coming into Venezuela. The Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago which have been free of the disease for decades have now issued a similar alert after detecting the disease in howler monkeys .
