Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018

Since December 2016, Brazil has faced a large outbreak of yellow fever with ca 1,500 confirmed human cases. In the first 2 months of 2018, Brazil reported almost as many cases as in 2017 as a whole. In these 2 months, five imported cases were reported among unvaccinated European travellers. Three ha...

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Autores principales: Gossner, Céline M, Haussig, Joana M, de Bellegarde de Saint Lary, Chiara, Kaasik Aaslav, Kaja, Schlagenhauf, Patricia, Sudre, Bertrand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560853
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.11.18-00106
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Haussig, Joana M
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Kaasik Aaslav, Kaja
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description Since December 2016, Brazil has faced a large outbreak of yellow fever with ca 1,500 confirmed human cases. In the first 2 months of 2018, Brazil reported almost as many cases as in 2017 as a whole. In these 2 months, five imported cases were reported among unvaccinated European travellers. Three had travelled to Ilha Grande, a popular destination among European tourists. Physicians and European travellers visiting Brazil should follow yellow fever vaccination recommendations.
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spelling pubmed-58615902018-03-29 Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018 Gossner, Céline M Haussig, Joana M de Bellegarde de Saint Lary, Chiara Kaasik Aaslav, Kaja Schlagenhauf, Patricia Sudre, Bertrand Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Since December 2016, Brazil has faced a large outbreak of yellow fever with ca 1,500 confirmed human cases. In the first 2 months of 2018, Brazil reported almost as many cases as in 2017 as a whole. In these 2 months, five imported cases were reported among unvaccinated European travellers. Three had travelled to Ilha Grande, a popular destination among European tourists. Physicians and European travellers visiting Brazil should follow yellow fever vaccination recommendations. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5861590/ /pubmed/29560853 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.11.18-00106 Text en This article is copyright of ECDC, 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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title Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018
title_full Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018
title_fullStr Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018
title_full_unstemmed Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018
title_short Increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated European travellers due to ongoing outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018
title_sort increased risk of yellow fever infections among unvaccinated european travellers due to ongoing outbreak in brazil, july 2017 to march 2018
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5861590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29560853
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.11.18-00106
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