Yellow Fever — Brazil
Researchers from the Owsaldo Cruz Institute have discovered that the virus from the latest outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil — the largest since the Health Ministry began record keeping — has a genetic sequence that has never been encountered before.
Motivated by the extent of the current epidemic, they performed a complete genetic sequencing of the genome of the virus and discovered 8 mutations that had never been seen before in some of the genetic sequences.
Of the variations, 7
…
