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.
Is yellow fever indigenous to Africa? I always thought it was just a New World disease.
Bring out your dead.
Visiting central Africa will be the LAST item on my bucket list.
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...
Africa. The country that keeps on giving - deadly diseases.
I wouldn’t think to look for Asian Chicks in Angola but, what the hell.
I’ll try anything...
Near where I grew up, there was a small cemetery that had a lot of yellow fever victims buried in it. At one time, they wanted to remove the cemetery to the main church yard, but the local health board thought it would be to dangerous.