The Yellow Fever Initiative

Yellow Fever Vaccination: An Issue for Non-endemic Tropical Countries

Yellow fever in Africa: public health impact and prospects for control in the 21st century.

In the last two decades, yellow fever re-emerged with vehemence to constitute a major public health problem in Africa. The disease has brought untold hardship and indescribable misery among different populations in Africa. It is one of Africa's stumbling blocks to economic and social development. Despite landmark achievements made in the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever diseas...

Aedes aegypti suppression in the Americas: historical perspectives.

556 www.thelancet.com Vol 388 August 6, 2016 Today populations in the Americas are under increasing threat from the dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses, spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. In earlier centuries, the same mosquito spread the deadly haemorrhagic viral infection known as yellow fever. Rigorously organised vector control programmes in the 20th century, however, ended the urban c...

Satellite Symposium on Challenges to Enteric Vaccines

In an effort to promote vaccine research and development of enteric vaccines, including cholera, typhoid fever, and rotavirus vaccines and to address the challenges for their future implementation, the WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research hosted a one-day Satellite Symposium dedicated to addressing the opportunities to use the licensed vaccines against cholera and typhoid fever and to consider t...

Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever Serotype 3 Viruses Cocirculation in Côte d’Ivoire in 2008

Aim of study. To describe the emergence of dengue 3 virus in Côte d’Ivoire during a yellow fever outbreak which occurred in 2008. Materials and methods. Sera from suspected cases of yellow fever as well as contacts of yellow fever confirmed cases and imported dengue fever cases were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) antiyellow fever virus and anti-dengue virus (for IgM antibodies to yellow feve...