Jungle Yellow Fever, Rio de Janeiro.(Brazil)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: Baran, Mary; Filippis, Ana M.B.; Miagostovich, Marize P.; Nicolai, Cecilia; Nogueira, Rita M.R.; Schatzmayr, Hermann G.; Sequeira, Patricia C. | Copyright information

To the Editor: Yellow fever control in Brazil through vaccination campaigns began in 1937. However, cases of jungle yellow fever still occur despite the existence of a potent vaccine and immunization campaigns focused on areas endemic for the jungle form of the disease (1). Most of these cases are in men in rural areas.

In Brazil from 1980 to 1998, 376 cases of jungle yellow fever were laboratory confirmed (by virus isolation, with or without immunoglobulin [Ig]M-capture...

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