Yellow Fever -- Worldwide/Unknown
The following information is meant for countries at risk from importation of yellow fever virus from East Africa.
These are countries that have seasonal outbreaks of dengue or endemic dengue due to _Aedes aegypti_, because that mosquito also transmits urban yellow fever. This airline map shows where international flights reach from Entebbe, Uganda, where cases of yellow fever have occurred recently .
If _Aedes aegypti_ control worked, there would be much less dengue, chikungunya and Zika
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