Yellow Fever in Africa: estimating the burden of disease and impact of mass vaccination from outbreak and serological data.

Yellow fever is a vector-borne disease affecting humans and non-human primates in tropical areas of Africa and South America. While eradication is not feasible due to the wildlife reservoir, large scale vaccination activities in Africa during the 1940s to 1960s reduced yellow fever incidence for sev...

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Main Authors: Tini Garske, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Sergio Yactayo, Olivier Ronveaux, Rosamund F Lewis, J Erin Staples, William Perea, Neil M Ferguson, Yellow Fever Expert Committee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4011853?pdf=render