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Editorial
. 2025 Jul 29:12:20499361251359017.
doi: 10.1177/20499361251359017. eCollection 2025 Jan-Dec.

Yellow fever's distressing return: a wake-up call for public health in the Americas

Gabriel Parra-Henao  1 , José A Usme-Ciro  2 , Julián Alfredo Fernández-Niño  3 , Andrés F Henao-Martínez  4
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Editorial

Yellow fever's distressing return: a wake-up call for public health in the Americas

Gabriel Parra-Henao et al. Ther Adv Infect Dis. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Americas; arbovirus; yellow fever.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

Figures

This map presents the confirmed human cases of yellow fever in the Americas Region in 2025, with red dots indicating specific locations. The size of each dot represents the number of cases in that area, scaled relative to the total case count across the region.
Figure 1.
Confirmed human cases of yellow fever in the Americas Region in 2025. The red dots represent confirmed yellow fever cases, with the size of each dot proportional to the number of cases in each location, scaled relative to the total case count across the region. Source: Adapted with permission from PAHO. PAHO, Pan American Health Organization.
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