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Article: First Case of Yellow Fever in French Guiana since 1902.
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
- Author:
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The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998. The yellow fever virus genome was detected in postmortem liver biopsies by seminested polymerase chain reaction, Sequence analysis showed that this strain was most closely related to strains from Brazil and Ecuador.
Yellow fever (YF) is a serious public health problem in many tropical countries in Africa and South America. In South America, most infections are sporadic, affecting unvaccinated persons who enter the forest; monkeys are the primary reservoirs, and Haemagoggus sp. are the vectors. French Guiana, located between Brazil and Surinam in the Amazonian forest, has had ...