
Yellow fever - World Health Organization (WHO)
Jul 10, 2025 · Yellow Fever Vaccines Vaccination is the most important measure for preventing yellow fever. Yellow fever vaccine is safe, affordable, and a single dose provides life-long …
Yellow fever - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 20, 2025 · Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease, primarily transmitted by day-biting mosquitoes. Twenty-seven African countries and 13 Latin American countries are classified as …
Yellow fever - World Health Organization (WHO)
Mar 2, 2017 · The Yellow Fever Initiative monitors the yellow fever activities at global level and identifies priorities in routine immunization, preventive campaigns, and outbreaks, including …
Yellow Fever - World Health Organization (WHO)
Yellow Fever Vaccines The attenuated live YF 17D vaccine strain is derived from a wild-type YF virus (the Asibi strain) isolated in Ghana in 1927 and attenuated by serial passages in chicken …
Yellow fever - World Health Organization (WHO)
Jul 10, 2025 · Yellow fever is an epidemic-prone vector-borne vaccine preventable viral disease that is transmitted to humans by the bites of infected mosquitos. In some of the unvaccinated …
Eliminate yellow fever epidemics (EYE) strategy 2017-2026
A single dose of yellow fever vaccine is sufficient to provide life-long immunity and protection against the disease. The EYE strategy aims at ensuring universal access to yellow fever …
Yellow Fever - World Health Organization (WHO)
Public health aspects Yellow fever (YF) is a mosquito-borne, viral haemorrhagic fever that is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and South America, where is has caused outbreaks at …
Countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and countries ...
Nov 18, 2022 · This list includes only countries or areas where WHO has determined there is a risk of yellow fever transmission and/or where there are country requirements for travellers.
Vaccination against yellow fever. 2. Recommendations and requirements for vaccination against yellow fever: (a) For the purpose of this Annex: (i) the incubation period of yellow fever is six …
Yellow fever - Region of the Americas
Yellow fever is an epidemic-prone, vaccine-preventable disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted to humans primarily through the bites of an infected Aedes spp. and Haemagogus …