O programa de Controle de Vetores de Febre Amarela e Dengue, desenvolvido pela Superintendência de Controle de Endemias do Estado de Säo Paulo, Brasil, prevê a realizaçäo de pesquisa para avaliaçäo da densidade larvária de Aedes aegypti e Aedes albopictus em edificaçöes de municípios com infes...
Papers on yellow fever activity in Trinidad and Tobago presented by a total of 27 authors. An historical perspective is represented. Areas covered range from the surveillance of yellow fever in Trinidad, vaccination campaigns during the epidemic, arboviral studies of the Trinidad Regional Virus Laborator...
Analisa questöes referentes à história da febre amarela no Brasil, no período compreendido entre as décadas de 1850 e 1950. Objetiva pesquisar a intensidade e a duraçäo com que a febre amarela se abateu sobre as coletividades humanas; as variaçöes observadas nas suas formas de propagaçäo; a in...
An historical overview of yellow fever dating back to the 18th and 17th centuries. The author looks at the history of the first outbreak in Trinidad where Trinidad is specifically named in 1793. The paper highlights the key role that Trinidad has played in the unravelling of yellow fever epidemiological ...
Eruption of a yellow fever epizootic/epidemic was signalled by the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory with the isolation of virus from the first human case in April 1954. Mosquito investigations were conducted in three major areas. Descriptions are provided of the forest environments, the mosquito collec...
Documentation of yellow fever in the Caribbean from as early as 1620. The disease in Trinidad is traced back to 1793, however, it is noted that no further documentation of epidemic activity was recorded until 1818, following which a number of outbreaks were reported on the island. A Table of outbreaks of...
Between 1978-1979 an epidemic of yellow fever occurred in Trinidad in two phases. Eight cases occurred in December 1978-March 1979 and 10 cases occured in August-September 1979. Seven died, giving a case fatality rate of 39 per cent . All cases were male aged 16-58 years (median 22.5). Seventeen had been...
The yellow fever epidemic in Trinidad began with an epizootic in alouatta monkeys in November, 1978. Activity was detected by virus isolation from Alouatta monkeys and from Haemagogus mosquitoes between this date and July 1980. First reports of monkey deaths centered around the Guayaguayare forests of So...
The clinical histopathological and serological findings in three patients who developed yellow fever after entering the Guayaguayare forest in south-east Trinidad in January and February 1979 are described in this report. The patients were all previously healthy young males and the clinical features of t...
