Virologie & Mycologie
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The yellow fever (YF) infection communicated by Haemagogus

Martinx Martinez Sobrer

The yellow fever (YF) infection is a Flavivirus, sent by Haemagogus, Sabethes or Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The illness is endemic in backwoods zones in Africa and Latin America prompting epizootics in monkeys that comprise the repository of the infection. There are two types of YF: sylvatic, communicated inadvertently when moving toward the woodlands, and metropolitan, which can be sustained by Aedes aegypti. In Brazil, the last instance of metropolitan YF happened in 1942. From that point forward, there has been an extension of transmission regions from the North and Midwest areas toward the South and Southeast.