Yellow fever threatening entire world according to WHO
(TRUNEWS) Yellow fever may soon become a threat to the entire world.
The World Health Organization (WHO) claims an outbreak in Angola could spread to other areas as reported by The Independent.
WHO, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies have declared a state of emergency.
About 238 people have already died. The first cases of the mosquito-borne illness were reported in the capital of Luanda late last year. Now almost all of the country is seeing instances of the disease.
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“The evolution of the situation in Angola is concerning and needs to be closely monitored,” WHO stated in a report.
People who have visited Angola have taken the virus to China, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo where 21 people have died.
WHO is concerned about the spread because of regional travel. A mosquito can transmit the disease by biting someone who is infected and then passing it to someone else through another bite. The Aedes mosquitos are the yellow fever carriers.
The disease also spreads more quickly where there have been previous outbreaks of Dengue, Chikungunya or Zika, according to the report.
Now travelers in nearby Rwanda are being asked for vaccination papers or are given a vaccine when they arrive in the country, according to The New Times.
Yellow fever has an incubation period of three to five days. About 50 percent of those affected die.
“Being hemorrhagic, death due to yellow fever often results from bleeding that occurs from the different sites in the body,” said Dr. Rachna Pande, a specialist in internal health at Ruhengeri Hospital.
Yellow fever kills about 60,000 people every year.
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