Concerns about yellow fever in Brazil

rio de janeiro - After zikavirus now concern an outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil, especially in the state of Minas Gerais. The Ministry of Health there has registered in recent weeks, 272 suspected cases of yellow fever, of which 71 were fatal. The authorities have more than 2 million doses of vaccine available to prevent further spread of the disease.

Yellow fever occurs in tropical regions on both sides of the Atlantic, in South America, particularly in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. All over the world do, according to the World Health Organization every year 200 000 Sickness and 60 000 deaths, mostly in Africa.

The virus that causes yellow fever, just as the zikavirus spread by mosquitoes. If pregnant women become infected with this, the risk that the development of the skull and brains of their unborn child behind.