Yellow Fever -- Brazil
The Bady Bassitt Secretariat of Health, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, this Wed 4 [May 2016] confirmed the death of a 38-year-old man. The victim was hospitalized for the past 2 weeks in the Sao Jose of Rio Preto Base Hospital. It is suspected that the disease is sylvatic [forest transmission cycle], since in Brazil there have been no urban yellow fever cases since the decade of the 1940s.
In urban areas, yellow fever [virus] is transmitted by the _Aedes aegypti_ mosquito that [also]
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