Yellow Fever -- Brazil
The researchers isolated the virus from each of the 67 confirmed samples, sequenced the genomes, and compared the genomes with those (available online) of viruses from the outbreaks of yellow fever that occurred between 1980 and 2015 in Brazil and neighboring countries.
They discovered that the strain responsible for the current epidemic originated in Venezuela and in Roraima state and Para State in Brazil. This is in line with prior research suggesting that the 2016-17 epidemic began in
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6547598&promed&0
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