Yellow fever outbreak, southern Sudan, 2003

Clayton O Onyango; Antoinette A Grobbelaar; Georgina V F Gibson; Rosemary C Sang; Abdourahmane Sow; Robert Swaneopel; Felicity J Burt

doi:10.3201/eid1009.030727

Yellow fever outbreak, southern Sudan, 2003

Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Sep;10(9):1668-70. doi: 10.3201/eid1009.030727.

Authors

Clayton O Onyango¹, Antoinette A Grobbelaar, Georgina V F Gibson, Rosemary C Sang, Abdourahmane Sow, Robert Swaneopel, Felicity J Burt

Affiliation

¹ World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research at Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.

Abstract

In May 2003, an outbreak of fatal hemorrhagic fever, caused by yellow fever virus, occurred in southern Sudan. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the virus belonged to the East African genotype, which supports the contention that yellow fever is endemic in East Africa with the potential to cause large outbreaks in humans.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

DNA, Viral / chemistry
Disease Outbreaks*
Genetic Variation
Humans
Phylogeny
Population Surveillance
Sudan / epidemiology
Yellow Fever / epidemiology*
Yellow Fever / virology
Yellow fever virus / genetics

Substances

DNA, Viral