PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever – Americas (07): Brazil, PAHO/WHO

Yellow Fever — Brazil
Marapoama, a city in north east Sao Paulo, is another to register a monkey dead of yellow fever. According to the municipal health authorities, tests confirmed that a monkey found dead last month [December 2016] had the disease.
The monkey was found dead in a place near an urban area. Since December [2016], residents of the region where the monkey was, have been undergoing vaccination. At the beginning of this month [January 2017] another animal was found dead in a stream but in this case