International risk of yellow fever spread from the ongoing outbreak in Brazil, December 2016 to May 2017
Open Access
- 13 July 2017
- journal article
- Published by European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) in Eurosurveillance
Abstract
States in south-eastern Brazil were recently affected by the largest Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak seen in a decade in Latin America. Here we provide a quantitative assessment of the risk of travel-related international spread of YF indicating that the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Italy and Germany may have received at least one travel-related YF case capable of seeding local transmission. Mitigating the risk of imported YF cases seeding local transmission requires heightened surveillance globally.Keywords
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