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International risk of yellow fever spread from the ongoing outbreak in Brazil, December 2016 to May 2017
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsIlaria Dorigattii.dorigatti imperial.ac.uk
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Citation style for this article: . International risk of yellow fever spread from the ongoing outbreak in Brazil, December 2016 to May 2017. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(28):pii=30572. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.28.30572 Received: 20 Jun 2017; Accepted: 11 Jul 2017
Abstract
States in south-eastern Brazil were recently affected by the largest Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak seen in a decade in Latin America. Here we provide a quantitative assessment of the risk of travel-related international spread of YF indicating that the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Italy and Germany may have received at least one travel-related YF case capable of seeding local transmission. Mitigating the risk of imported YF cases seeding local transmission requires heightened surveillance globally.