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Yellow Fever in Central Uganda, 1964. Part I. Historical Introduction.
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An account is given of the past history of yellow fever cases and epidemics in eastern Africa, and of the field and laboratory studies which led to the incrimination of Aedes (Stegomyia) simpsoni and Ae.Abstract:
An account is given of the past history of yellow fever cases and epidemics in eastern Africa, and of the field and laboratory studies which led to the incrimination of Aedes (Stegomyia) simpsoni (Theobald) and Ae. (S.) africanus (Theobald) as vectors of the virus, the former mainly in a peri-domestic habitat and the latter in forest, particularly the forest canopy.read more
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The Global Distribution of Yellow Fever and Dengue
TL;DR: Records of the occurrence of both yellow fever and Dengue during the 20th century have been collected together and are used to define their climatic limits using remotely sensed satellite data within a discriminant analytical model framework.
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Yellow fever and Zika virus epizootics and enzootics in Uganda
A.W.R. McCrae,B.G. Kirya +1 more
TL;DR: Data of monkey serology are presented which support the view that yellow fever (YF) virus circulates in its primary sylvan host populations, i.e., forest monkeys, in an enzootic state in Bwamba County in western Uganda but as series of epizootics in the forest-savanna mosaic zone of central Uganda.
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Yellow fever: 100 years of discovery.
J. Erin Staples,Thomas P. Monath +1 more
TL;DR: The spread of yellow fever can be most effectually controlled by measures directed to the destruction of mosquitoes, and cannot be transmitted by fomites nor spread in a house without the presence of mosquitoes.
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First recorded outbreak of yellow fever in Kenya, 1992-1993. I. Epidemiologic investigations.
Eduard J. Sanders,Anthony A. Marfin,Peter M. Tukei,G Kuria,G Ademba,N N Agata,J O Ouma,C B Cropp,N Karabatsos,Paul Reiter,Patrick S. Moore,Duane J. Gubler +11 more
TL;DR: This was the first documented outbreak of YF in Kenya, a classic example of a sylvatic transmission cycle, and surveillance in rural and urban areas outside the vaccination area should be intensified.
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