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Virus Name:
Yellow fever
Abbreviation:
YFV
Status
Arbovirus
Select Agent
No
SALS Level
3
SALS Basis
Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.
Other Information
DOC Permit Required, Hepa Filtration, Vaccination Recommended
Antigenic Group
B
Remarks
Endemically maintained by wandering epizootics principally if not wholly among primates and transmitted by forest mosquitoes. Endemic and epidemic areas have been defined mainly by serological methods but frequently can be verified by virus isolation. With the exception of former urban outbreaks in North America and Southern Europe, transmitted from man to man by Aedes aegypti, yellow fever as far as is known has been confined to Africa, South America and parts of Central America. In 1948 an extension northward of jungle yellow fever began in the Panama Canal Zone and by 1959 had reached the southern border of Mexico. Monkeys were mainly affected but there were also some tangential human infections. In 1960 a severe outbreak with many deaths was reported in Ethiopia. In the past, epidemics occurred in North America and Southern Europe.
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