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Yellow Fever threat Argentina
Friday, 16 January, 2009
The first cases of Yellow Fever in Argentina were reported last year in the north-eastern province of Missiones. The patents involved were rural workers in the forested areas bordering on Rio Grande do Sol in Brazil and were presumed to have acquired the sylvan form of the disease which is transmitted by the Hemogogus species of mosquito from infected monkeys to humans. There is now suspicion that yellow fever has caused the death of a 36 year-old woman in Posadas City in Missiones province who had not been outside the city during the duration of the incubation period of Yellow Fever. If confirmed, the case raises the possibility of transmission human-to-human through the urban Aedes mosquito. Posadas City is close to the Paraguay border where there was a serious outbreak at the beginning of last year. Although Argentina is not yet a designated Yellow Fever country it is strongly recommended that anyone visiting the northern area including particularly the Iguacu Falls be vaccinated against Yellow Fever
