Geographic patterns and environmental factors associated with human yellow fever presence in the Americas.

• Main Authors: Patricia Najera Hamrick (Author), Sylvain Aldighieri (Author), Gustavo Machado (Author), Deise Galan Leonel (Author), Luz Maria Vilca (Author), Sonia Uriona (Author), Maria Cristina Schneider (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:In the Americas, yellow fever virus transmission is a latent threat due to the proximity between urban and wild environments. Although yellow fever has nearly vanished from North and Central America, there are still 13 countries in the Americas considered endemic by the World Health Organ...