Keep Your Eyes On Africa’s Latest Virus Outbreak
By Maggie Martin
ActivistPost.com
APRIL 8, 2016
Mosquitoes are once again in the news … and so are vaccines. Angola, Africa is the site of the latest “outbreak,” this time yellow fever. So far, at least 225 people have died, with over 1,600 reported cases. The outbreak is of particular concern as it first took hold in the nation’s capital of 6 million people, Luanda, in December of last year.
Yellow fever – similar to Zika, chikunguya and dengue – is carried by the now globally dreaded Aedes aegypti mosquito. Unlike the knowingly inflated numbers of the mass hysteria that surrounded Zika, yellow fever has long been recognized as a source of mass casualties in the 40+ countries where it has appeared, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths annually.
While the illness and deaths unfolding across Angola are horrific for those currently in yellow fever’s path, it is notable that the mainstream media is pushing the apparently much larger question: Could yellow fever return to the USA? On cue, stories are beginning to emerge about “migrant Chinese workers” who could ultimately take the virus out of Africa and back to their home country, while the general question about global travel routinely invokes the question about when, not if, a formerly eradicated disease might make its return to the First World via global transportation. Maybe the EU?
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