Yellow fever
WHO/CDS/CSR/EDC/2000/1/EN
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