Yellow Fever - Populations at Risk

Populations at risk

Forty-five endemic countries in Africa and Latin America, with a combined population of over 900 million, are at risk. In Africa, an estimated 508 million people live in 32 countries at risk. The remaining population at risk are in 13 countries in Latin America, with Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at greatest risk.

There are an estimated 200 000 cases of yellow fever (causing 30 000 deaths) worldwide each year. Small numbers of imported cases occur in countries free of yellow fever. Although the disease has never been reported in Asia, the region is at risk because the conditions required for transmission are present there. (1)

Countries with risk of yellow fever transmission - CDC 2010

Africa			Central and South America
Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of the Côte d’Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Equatorial Guinea	Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger	Nigeria Rwanda Sierra Leone São Tomé and Principe Senegal Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Venezuela

References:

1. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs100/en/ (accessed July 2010)

2. http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2010/chapter-2/yellow-fever.aspx (accessed July 2010)