28.04.2016April 28, 2016 -- An ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Africa has global health and infectious diseases experts concerned. Yellow fever. The virus that causes yellow fever is … This outbreak was the largest reported in Angola during the last 30 years. In response to the outbreak, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent approximately 40 staff to Angola to support the Ministry of Health with surveillance, epidemiology, laboratory diagnostics, case management, social mobilization, … The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the United States, Caribbean, and South America experienced several major outbreaks of yellow fever, devastating local populations. 22 April 2020 Yellow fever – Ethiopia; 18 April 2020 Yellow fever – Republic of South Sudan; 21 February 2020 Yellow fever – Uganda 14.09.2018In December 2015, a yellow fever outbreak began in Luanda, Angola.
By mid-June 2016, almost 18 million doses of yellow fever vaccine have been distributed in emergency vaccination campaigns in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda.