International risk of yellow fever spread from the ongoing outbreak in Brazil
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Author(s)
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
The largest Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak in a decade in Latin America is underway in the Southeast of Brazil. In this article we provide a quantitative assessment of the risk of travel-related international spread of YF. We argue that mitigating the risk of imported YF cases seeding local transmission requires heightened surveillance in the southern United States, Latin America (especially Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) and Europe (especially Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany).
Date Issued
2017-06-23
Citation
2017
Publisher
bioRxiv
Copyright Statement
© 2017 The Author(s). This preprint is licensed under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Sponsor
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Identifier
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/152280v1
Grant Number
MR/K010174/1B
MR/R015600/1
Publication Status
Published