Late or Lack of Vaccination Linked to Importation of Yellow Fever from Angola to China

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 24; no. 7; pp. 1383 - 1386
• Main Authors: Song, Rui, Guan, Shengcan, Lee, Shui Shan, Chen, Zhihai, Chen, Chen, Han, Lifen, Xu, Yanli, Li, Ang, Zeng, Hui, Ye, Hanhui, Zhang, Fujie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2018; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Analysis; Angola - epidemiology; China - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Imported - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Imported - immunology; Communicable Diseases, Imported - prevention & control; Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control; Humans; jaundice; Late or Lack of Vaccination Linked to Importation of Yellow Fever from Angola to China; Medical research; outbreak; Phylogeny; Public Health Surveillance; Research Letter; Vaccination; Viral Vaccines - immunology; virus; viscerotropic; yellow fever; Yellow Fever - epidemiology; Yellow Fever - immunology; Yellow Fever - prevention & control; Yellow Fever - virology; Yellow fever virus - classification; Yellow fever virus - genetics; Yellow fever virus - immunology; China; Angola; oliguria; viruses; Angola; bleeding; yellow fever; jaundice; nucleic acid; kidney; IL6; viscerotropic; China; bilirubin; liver enzymes; outbreak; hemorrhage; vaccination; vomiting
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2407.171868

During March and April 2016, 11 yellow fever cases were identified in China. We report epidemic and viral information for 10 of these patients, 6 of whom had been vaccinated before travel. Phylogenetic analyses suggest these viruses nested within the diversity of strains endemic to Angola, where an outbreak began in 2015.