Yellow fever

With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation phase to infecting again.

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Main Author: Prata,Aluízio
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2000
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762000000700031
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Summary:With the infestation by Aedes aegypti, urban yellow fever might already exist. This did not occur because of either the lacking of a sufficient contact between the diseased individual and the A. aegypti or perhaps because this, after sixty years without transmitting the virus, needs an adaptation phase to infecting again.