Assessment of yellow fever epidemic risk: an original multi-criteria modeling approach.

• Main Authors: Sylvie Briand (Author), Ariel Beresniak (Author), Tim Nguyen (Author), Tajoua Yonli (Author), Gerard Duru (Author), Chantal Kambire (Author), William Perea (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Yellow fever (YF) virtually disappeared in francophone West African countries as a result of YF mass vaccination campaigns carried out between 1940 and 1953. However, because of the failure to continue mass vaccination campaigns, a resurgence of the deadly disease in many African countri...