Posted on 04/17/2016 2:53:10 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
On 21 January 2016, the National IHR Focal Point of Angola notified WHO of an outbreak of yellow fever (YF). The first case with onset date on 5 December 2015 was identified in Viana municipality, Luanda province.
As of 7 April 2016, a total of 1,708 suspected cases, including 238 deaths (CFR: 13.9%), had been reported from 16 of the country’s 18 provinces. >snip<
A total of 581 cases have been laboratory confirmed in 59 districts of 12 provinces. >snip< The risk of spread to other provinces and to neighbouring countries remains very high.
Transmission of the disease is no longer restricted to Luanda. As of 7 April 2016, the National Final Classification Committee had confirmed local transmission in five other provinces (Benguela, Cuanza Sul, Huambo, Huila and Uige) and in a total of 10 districts.
In addition, international spread of the disease has already been documented. Recent imported cases of YF have in fact been detected in China, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (see DONs published on 11 and 6 April).
(Excerpt) Read more at who.int ...
There’s a vaccine for yellow fever. It takes a month to “mature” into immunity.
Other sources indicate that "people infected in Angola have already taken the virus to China, Kenya, Mauritania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
The disease is spread by the same genus of mosquito (Aedes) that spreads Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya.
There are no travel restrictions in place at this time.
See article and posts above.
Is yellow fever indigenous to Africa? I always thought it was just a New World disease.
Hideous.
It’s believed to have originated in Africa and come to the Americas with transatlantic trade.
Bring out your dead.
Visiting central Africa will be the LAST item on my bucket list.
The evolutionary origins of yellow fever most likely lie in Africa, with transmission of the disease from non-human primates to humans.[45][46] The virus is thought to have originated in East or Central Africa and spread from there to West Africa. As it was endemic in Africa, the natives had developed some immunity to it. When an outbreak of yellow fever would occur in an African village where colonists resided, most Europeans died, while the native population usually suffered nonlethal symptoms resembling influenza.[47] This phenomenon, in which certain populations develop immunity to yellow fever due to prolonged exposure in their childhood, is known as acquired immunity.[48] The virus, as well as the vector A. aegypti, were probably transferred to North and South America with the importation of slaves from Africa, part of the Columbian Exchange following European exploration and colonization.
The first definitive outbreak of yellow fever in the New World was in 1647 on the island of Barbados.[49] An outbreak was recorded by Spanish colonists in 1648 in the Yucatán Peninsula, where the indigenous Mayan people called the illness xekik (”blood vomit”). In 1685, Brazil suffered its first epidemic, in Recife.
Source: Wikipedia
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I see what you did there.
0_o
Thanks. Never know what you’re going to learn on FR.
“Live like you will die tomorrow, learn like you will live forever.” -—Roman proverb.
I think we’re going to need a big wall.
Thanks, Hugin. That’s only one of the many reasons that I love this site. :)
There’s a good book about the history of yellow fever in the US. I would tell you the title, but I’m on my phone and don’t know how to get to the library catalog. Try a subject search.
I think we’re going to need a big trench.
There are a number of books on the subject.
By the way, I love that proverb.
I think we’re at the end times.
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