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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

Section VII - Natural Host Range (Additional text can be added below table)

Vertebrate (species and organ) and arthropod	No. isolations/No. tested	No. with antibody/No. tested Test used	Country and region


Two epidemiological patterns recognized: urban, man-mosquito-man, usually transmitted by Aedes aegypti; and jungle or sylvan, involving forest vertebrates, usually if not exclusively primates and forest mosquitoes, mainly Haemagogus in the western hemisphere and Ae africanus in Africa.Man tangentially infected. Ae simpsoni important intermediate vector in human infections in Africa.
Man	Numerous from blood	NT+, 90% in highly endemic or following severe epidemic
Primates: Virtually all from blood and Africa	Infrequent	NT+, high % in highly endemic areas and following recent epizootics.
Monkey (blood) (Bitten by A. variegatum larvae)	1		Central African Rep.(18)
Marsupials; some species		NT+ in some localities
Aedes, aegypti, Ae simpsoni	Found infected in nature (8)
Ae africanus	Found infected in nature (8)
Hemagogus leucocelaenus	Found infected in nature (8)
Haemagogus species and Sabethes chloropterus	Found infected in nature (13)
Aedes africanus + Ae opok	4		Central African Rep.(15)
Aedes africanus	1		Central African Rep.(15)
Amblyomma variegatum eggs, larvae	1 ea		Central African Rep.(18)

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