Yellow Jack: a modern threat to Asia-Pacific countries?

Duane J Gubler; Kathryn A Hanley; Thomas P Monath; David M Morens; Mauricio Lacerda Nogueira; Nikos Vasilakis; Scott C Weaver; Yellow Fever Advisory Group

doi:10.1038/s44298-024-00079-5

Yellow Jack: a modern threat to Asia-Pacific countries?

Npj Viruses. 2025 Apr 24;3(1):34. doi: 10.1038/s44298-024-00079-5.

Authors

Duane J Gubler¹, Kathryn A Hanley², Thomas P Monath³, David M Morens⁴, Mauricio Lacerda Nogueira^{5

6}, Nikos Vasilakis^{7

8

9

10}, Scott C Weaver^{11

12

13}; Yellow Fever Advisory Group

Collaborators

Yellow Fever Advisory Group:
Jens H Kuhn, Charles H Calisher, Esper G Kallas, Scott B Halstead, Stephen Higgs, Laura D Kramer, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Robert B Tesh, Andrew F Van den Hurk

Affiliations

¹ Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore. Duane.Gubler@duke-nus.edu.sg.
² Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
³ Quigley BioPharma, Leominster, MA, USA.
⁴ Chester, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Laboratórios de Pesquisas em Virologia, Departamento de Doenças Dermatológicas, Infecciosas e Parasitárias, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
⁷ Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. nivasila@utmb.edu.
⁸ Center for Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. nivasila@utmb.edu.
⁹ Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. nivasila@utmb.edu.
¹⁰ World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. nivasila@utmb.edu.
¹¹ Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
¹² World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
¹³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.

Abstract

In 1923, H.R. Carter published a seminal treatise on the possibility of yellow fever virus spreading to the Asia Pacific region, where large numbers of susceptible people were at risk of infection. This paper marks the 100th anniversary of that publication, and posits that, despite many public health advances, global trends increase the likelihood of yellow fever virus geographic spread. Potential reasons for the failure of the virus to spread are discussed.

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