Yellow Fever — Worldwide/Unknown
The scale of the vaccine campaign is unprecedented, Aylward said. Since January, when yellow fever first appeared in Luanda, Angola, 14.5 million people have been vaccinated in that city and surrounding areas. The campaign launching this month will bring the total number of vaccinated people to 30 million. Aylward said the WHO, in collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Angola, and the DRC, needs to work fast to vaccinate during the dry months, when mosquito populations are down. “We
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