| Summary |
| I. Introduction |
II. Historical review
II. 1 Pre-vaccination epidemiology
II. 2 Pre-vaccination epidemiology in Africa
II. 3 Development of vaccines
II. 4 Early post-vaccination epidemiology 1940-1980 |
III.Epidemiology
III. 1 Vector reservoir, vertebrate maintainer and amplifier
III. 2 Yellow fever virus
III. 3 Transmission cycles and vectors that affect them
III. 4 Distribution, ecological zones and types of transmission in Africa
III. 5 Recent epidemiology in Africa
III. 6 Risk factors
III. 7 Epidemiology in the Americas
III. 8 Yellow fever and Asia |
| IV. Cost effectiveness of yellow fever vaccination |
V. Surveillance
V.1 Definition of surveillance
V.2 Yellow fever sentinel surveillance in Kenya |
| VI. Comments and suggestions |
| Summary of recommendations |
| Appendix I: Examples of historical yellow fever epidemics |
| Appendix II: Yellow fever cases reported in Africa 1900-1996 |
| Appendix III: African vectors |
| Appendix: IV: African vertebrate hosts |
| Appendix V: South American vectors and vertebrate hosts |
| Bibliography |
