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Yellow fever

March 2022

  • Some advocates have raised alarms about the experiments, suggesting that hybrids could develop that might be even more difficult to control.

    US poised to release 2.4bn genetically modified male mosquitoes to battle deadly diseases

    The future isn’t female, at least not for the invasive Aedes aegypti: the altered males are engineered to produce only male offspring

November 2020

  • Nigeria Department of Health poster encouraging inoculation.

    Spike in yellow fever deaths prompts Nigeria to revive vaccination campaigns

    Resurgence of disease linked to factors including climate crisis and focus of health resources on Covid response

September 2019

  • An Aedes mosquito feeding on a human arm.

    The long read
    People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killer

    The long read: These tiny pests adapt so successfully to changing conditions that they have become humankind’s deadliest predator. We might soon be able to eradicate them – but should we?

January 2019

  • Prof Martin Gore, who has died at the age of 67

    Top cancer scientist dies after yellow fever vaccination

    Prince William pays tribute to Royal Marsden’s Prof Martin Gore, a ‘source of inspiration’

March 2018

  • FILE - In this March 17, 2017 file photo, Manuel de Freitas removes his shirt to expose his arm as a health worker fills a syringe with a yellow fever vaccine in Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil. Brazil’s health minister said Tuesday, March 20, 2018, that the country is expanding its campaign to vaccinate people against yellow fever to cover the entire country. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

    Brazil faces new yellow fever outbreak – and questions over lack of preparedness

    The country plans to vaccinate its entire population against the lethal mosquito-borne disease but specialists doubt its capacity to do so

January 2018

  • A State Endemics Control health agent fumigates insecticide in an area to kill mosquitoes during a campaign against yellow fever in Sao Paulo

    Brazil yellow fever crisis: dozens dead as São Paulo closes city gardens and zoo

    Health officials plan to vaccinate millions as cases of yellow fever rise during the Southern Hemisphere rainy season

February 2017

  • yellow fever vaccine

    Brazil on high alert as yellow fever threatens major cities

    Health ministry ramps up vaccination campaign but cautions against ‘disinformation’, as disease spreads to areas where it is not normally found

September 2016

  • MSF’s yellow fever vaccination campaign started in a school in the zone de Santé Kikimi in Kinshasa

    Yellow fever in Congo: MSF vaccinates 710,000 people in 10 days – in pictures

    Amid fears of a yellow fever epidemic, Médecins Sans Frontières took part in an emergency campaign of mass vaccination in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital

August 2016

  • Nurse fills syringe with vaccine

    Fighting yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – in pictures

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ministry of health has declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces as concern grows about the spread of the disease, particularly in the densely populated Kinshasa region. Photographer Tommy Trenchard followed Save the Children’s vaccination campaign in the country
  • A child receives vaccination against yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Yellow fever in Angola and the DRC: a stark warning from an old enemy

    Sunetra Gupta
    It’s easy to blame a vaccine shortage, but new outbreaks are paradoxically a result of successful interventions that build up numbers of non-immune adults
  • FILE -In this file photo taken Thursday July 21, 2016, residents of the Kisenso district of Kinshasa, receive yellow fever vaccines. Dozens of organizations have started a massive emergency vaccination campaign Wednesday Aug. 17, 2016, in Congo against the largest yellow fever outbreak in decades, trying to stop its global spread. Doctors Without Borders and others are joining Congo’s government and the World Health Organization in targeting about 10.5 million people over the next 10 days.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

    Fears of global yellow fever epidemic grow as vaccine stocks dwindle

    One of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted aims to stop virus taking hold in central Africa

May 2016

  • Yellow fever vaccine

    Guardian development network
    EU rapid reaction medical force targets yellow fever in Angola

    The European Medical Corps set up after the Ebola crisis is being sent to tackle the yellow fever outbreak that has claimed nearly 300 lives in Angola

April 2016

  • A Angolan military administers a yellow fever vaccine to a child at 'Quilometro 30' market, Luanda, Angola, 16 February 2016. This market in the Angolan capital was considered the center of the yellow fever outbreak killing 51 people out of 240 cases since December of 2015.

    Angola's yellow fever outbreak shows funding vaccines is critical

    Dr Sam Agbo
    Purse strings may be tight, but investing in immunisation brings economic rewards, reducing healthcare costs and improving school attendance
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