This is deadly serious...

[ColinizeR]

A state of emergency has been declared in Paraguay due to the first outbreak of yellow fever in more than 30 years.

Health authorities say one man has died and almost 10 others may have contracted the disease.






Paraguay In A Panic Over Yellow Fever

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[floatl][/floatl] A state of emergency has been declared in Paraguay due to the first outbreak of yellow fever in more than 30 years.
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What is worse is that one of the long-time members here on the FG has family in Paraguay and is on route to join them.

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Paraguay faces yellow fever outbreak
ABC News
A state of emergency has been declared in Paraguay due to the first outbreak of yellow fever in more than 30 years.
Health authorities say one man has died and almost 10 others may have contracted the disease. Of those who develop symptoms after being bitten by an infected mosquito, most will die from the virulent disease. ...more...[/INDENT]

[GuyJean]

A state of emergency has been declared in Paraguay due to the first outbreak of yellow fever in more than 30 years.

Health authorities say one man has died and almost 10 others may have contracted the disease..

It seems like we'd have a way of 'containing' Yellow Fever by now..

Not to sound callous, but those South America countries go through a lot. When I was in Ecuador in the early nineties, there was a cholera outbreak and thousands died.. I don't think the 'civilized' world even heard about it.

GJ

[Big Booger]

Why does Paraguay not have the vaccine for this disease? Is it that expensive to make?

[GuyJean]

It seems like we'd have a way of 'containing' Yellow Fever by now..

Guess not. It takes an army:

Brazil sends army to battle yellow fever
http://www.mujer.notiemail.com/salud/articulos.asp?lang=en&idart=3849&Idsubctg=0

The Brazilian army will take on the task of combating the mosquito that transmits the yellow fever virus, which has claimed more lives - seven - in the first weeks of 2008 than during all of last year, health officials said Friday.

The military operation initially will focus on Brasilia, in whose surrounding area the vast majority of the 29 cases reported thus far have occurred. News of the disease has alarmed the inhabitants of that city, the nation's capital, with people heading en masse to vaccination centers.

Jose Gerardo Maciel, the health secretary of the Federal District, which has the same borders as Brasilia, said that since the first cases were reported on Dec. 28 a total of 1.1 million people, or half the city's population, have been vaccinated.

All the confirmed cases, with the exception of a woman who visited Mato Grosso do Sul state, another of the high-risk areas, were in rural parts of Goias, which surrounds Brasilia.

The tropical state abounds in natural waterfalls that are the ideal breeding ground for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the transmitter of diseases such as yellow fever and dengue.

'They're isolated cases, which occur every year because of the particular characteristics of Brazil, which has jungles, monkeys, mosquitoes and viruses circulating,' Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao said.

According to the minister, it is 'irresponsible' to talk about an outbreak or epidemic.

Specialists agree with Temporao and say that, although there were just five deaths nationwide in all of 2007, the seven people dead in the first 15 days of 2008 still are insufficient to declare an outbreak, much less an epidemic.

The situation, however, is cause for enough concern that 100 soldiers beginning Monday will take to the streets of Brasilia, armed with fumigation equipment, to ensure that the mosquitoes do not reach Brazil's urban areas, where no cases of yellow fever have been reported since 1942.

Dressed in combat gear, the soldiers will work alongside almost 1,000 health department agents and, according to authorities, will go 'house to house' to fumigate all the areas where the mosquitoes might live and breed...

GJ

[American Oyaji]

I remember when I got my Yellow Fever vaccination before I went to Japan. It made me pretty sick.

[Greji]

"....transmits the yellow fever virus...."
GJ

Also, a lot of dead and/or tired beavers as a result of another strain.....

[Charles]

I recall reading an interesting article that asserted that US cities were rife with Yellow Fever in past ages, due to poor sewerage and sanitation. So the affluent people fled the city in the summers when outbreaks were worst. The author claimed this was the origin of summer vacations.

It looks like we're going to deal with this problems more often. There have been outbreaks of mosquito-borne encephalitis in Los Angeles. West Nile disease has been a problem here in the Midwest for the last couple of summers.

[Iraira]

I caught my first true case of yellow fever from this gorgeous Vietnamese girl named Phuong Hseung at UC Berkeley, then another case from Vicki Lam. At UC Irvine, there was not a day that the yellow fever did not affect me. Hell, I even bought an Integra (but did not drop it or modify it, except for the white covering over the turn signals) in order to have more success combating the yellow fever. Recently, I traced my yellow fever back to a pool party when I was about 11 years old. I had no way of understanding why I was chasing Maya Fujimoto around the pool for hours, at that time. The next day, a hair sprouted.

This is not to belittle those who suffer from the mosquito-borne virus, but I think that the original post was meant to convey...well...you get the point.

[succubusqueen]

While in Latin America a few years back I got sick with Dengue fever ....that was on of my most painful memories I have. Those mosquitoes are so effective...they resist insecticide and no matter where you go....they are there just ready to suck your f*cking blood.

[kamome]

I caught my first true case of yellow fever from this gorgeous Vietnamese girl named Phuong Hseung at UC Berkeley, then another case from Vicki Lam. At UC Irvine, there was not a day that the yellow fever did not affect me. Hell, I even bought an Integra (but did not drop it or modify it, except for the white covering over the turn signals) in order to have more success combating the yellow fever. Recently, I traced my yellow fever back to a pool party when I was about 11 years old. I had no way of understanding why I was chasing Maya Fujimoto around the pool for hours, at that time. The next day, a hair sprouted.

I contracted my first case of yellow fever back in the 8th grade - Japanese sisters who were both cuties but would have nothing to do with me. I would feel bad except I built up a resistance to the disease after contracting it and remedying it many times over a period of five years in Japan.

[Greji]

I contracted my first case of yellow fever back in the 8th grade - Japanese sisters who were both cuties but would have nothing to do with me. I would feel bad except I built up a resistance to the disease after contracting it and remedying it many times over a period of five years in Japan.

Having been in the orient for sometime now, I have had the opportunity to have injections covering most of the fever for most of the countries. But being of weak mind and sound body, I seem to always have relapses, every time I meet a carrier of this fearful disease.

[Iraira]

Having been in the orient for sometime now, I have had the opportunity to have injections covering most of the fever for most of the countries. But being of weak mind and sound body, I seem to always have relapses, every time I meet a carrier of this fearful disease.

Most diseases evolve to become less virulent over time, as they just want a reasonable host to replicate it without debilitating it to the point where the host (and subseuqently the pathogen) dies. Not sure how this works with the non-viral form of YF, but it might have something to do with access to the bank account.

[halfnip]

Not sure how this works with the non-viral form of YF, but it might have something to do with access to the bank account.

Hahahhaahah! So true, so true... Like parasites..

[kamome]

Having been in the orient for sometime now, I have had the opportunity to have injections covering most of the fever for most of the countries. But being of weak mind and sound body, I seem to always have relapses, every time I meet a carrier of this fearful disease.

That's right! There's a different strain of the fever in each country! And somehow I keep contracting it no matter how careful I am to avoid it.

[Greji]

That's right! There's a different strain of the fever in each country! And somehow I keep contracting it no matter how careful I am to avoid it.

You're right exactly and in the interest of advancing my knowledge of medical science, I like to return to those countries to examine the various strains!