Argentina: Misiones Province Now Vaccinating for Yellow Fever

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | January 8th, 2009 | Trackback

Authorities in Misiones province have begun a program of mass vaccination to combat an outbreak of yellow fever that killed a farm worker recently in a rural region near the border with Paraguay and Brazil. The man’s death came nine months after a tobacco worker from the same area died from yellow fever, Argentina’s first fatality from the disease since 1966. Misiones authorities have ordered 1.2 million vaccine doses to immunize all residents and anyone who travels to the province, and the national health ministry has set up free vaccination stations around the country. The disease is spread by mosquitoes and authorities are concerned that infected persons could bring it from rural areas into cities where mosquitoes could then spread it to others. Yellow fever has reemerged as a threat in the past 18 months in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru.

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