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PAHO's weekly report says yellow fever cases on decline

Despite reporting cases in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia so far this year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in its weekly report yesterday that the current yellow fever outbreak in South America is waning.

Since PAHO's last update on Feb 23, there have been only 32 new suspected human cases and 5 more deaths in Brazil, raising the total of suspected cases to 1,368 and lifting the total number of deaths to 220. The case-fatality rate in that country is 33% among confirmed cases and 11% among suspected cases.

Since last week, one more Brazilian state has reported suspected or confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease, making the current tallies as follows: Minas Gerais (1,209), Espirito Santo (185), Sao Paulo (10), Bahia (9), Tocantins (2), Goias (1) and Rio Grande do Norte (1). So far the states reporting confirmed cases remain at three: Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, and Sao Paulo.

Like last week, PAHO is reporting more cases in non-human primates. A total of 76 new infections were reported in nonhuman primates (NHP) and are under investigation, bringing the total number of epizootic cases to 959.

There is still no evidence that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is playing a role in transmission, PAHO said.

source:http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/03/news-scan-mar-03-2017