Tuesday, 16 May 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever - Americas (46): Brazil, virus mutations

Yellow Fever -- Brazil
Researchers from the Owsaldo Cruz Institute have discovered that the virus from the latest outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil -- the largest since the Health Ministry began record keeping -- has a genetic sequence that has never been encountered before.
Motivated by the extent of the current epidemic, they performed a complete genetic sequencing of the genome of the virus and discovered 8 mutations that had never been seen before in some of the genetic sequences.
Of the variations, 7

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2pUjqav

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