Outbreak responders hope to get a jump on mosquitoes by scaling up vaccination during a dry period.
Yellow fever continues to sweep across border areas between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) weekly yellow fever situation report.
The campaign's bullseye is the high trade and traffic corridor between Angola and the DRC.
The $72 million plan focuses on vaccination, as well as on early detection and case management.
Yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been declared an epidemic in three provinces as officials report 1,000 suspected cases, Reuters reported today.
The disease persists in Angola, local cases were reported in a new part of the DRC's Kinshasa province, and investigators are looking at cases in other nations.
Federal officials have detected the MCR-1 resistance gene in another Escherichia coli isolate taken from a pig, bringing to three the number of US detections in 3 weeks, after the gene was found in late May in samples from a person and a separate pig.
Yellow fever stubbornly persists and is spreading, despite a major influx of vaccine.
Angola has almost 3,000 cases, while 3 new nations probe possible infections.
Cases continue to rise in yellow fever outbreaks affecting Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Uganda, compelling the World Health Organization (WHO) to say yesterday there is high risk of the disease's spread to other provinces and neighboring countries.