Published Date: 2000-01-18 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Yellow fever - Bolivia
Archive Number: 20000118.0069
YELLOW FEVER - BOLIVIA
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Date: Mon 17 Jan 2000
From: Marianne Hopp <mjhopp12@yahoo.com>
Source: WHO WER online
www.who.int
Notification of diseases received from 7 to 13 January 2000.
YELLOW FEVER
Americas
Bolivia 16.IV-30.VI [16 Apr - 30 Jun 1999
La Paz Dept. 3 cases 3 deaths
Santa Cruz Dept. 9 cases 6 deaths
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[Such delay in reporting an internationally notifiable disease to WHO is
really unacceptable. Not surprisingly, a neighbor country is complaining --
see below -- although it is also behind in its notifications Mod.JW
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Date: Tue 18 Jan 2000
From: ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org>
Source: Jornal da Tarde, Brazil Tue 18 Jan 2000 < http://www.jt.com.br>
[Translated & edited by Mod.JW
Staff of the National Health Foundation (Funasa) of Brazil fear that the
Bolivian authorities are omitting (sic) information about yellow fever (YF).
"They don't respond when we ask them for numbers of cases," says Ailton
Rodrigues, Funasa coordinator of operations against Aedes aegypti, a vector
of yellow fever & dengue.
Up to the end of December 1999, Bolivia had officially registered 70 cases
of sylvan [forest origin YF. But the number of cases could be higher,
according to Funasa, because the Bolivian notification system is precarious.
The Health Secretariat of Acre State & Funasa are requiring YF vaccination
certificates from Bolivians entering Brazil. Two YF vaccination posts have
been set up, one in Brasileia on the border with Cobija on the Bolivian
side, and one in Placido de Castro across from the village of Montevideo.
Acre State has donated 10 000 doses of YF vaccine to the Department of
Pando, the Bolivian province (sic) of which the capital is Cobija, & Funasa
has carried out 2 mosquito control operations in that town, where the number
of mosquito breeding foci is 37 per 100 houses. In Brasileia the rate is 2
foci per 100 houses.
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[The limit below which an urban epidemic supposedly cannot occur is around 2
foci per 100 houses - Mod.JW
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