{"id":287907,"date":"2017-01-25T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287907"},"modified":"2017-01-25T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:36:12","slug":"yellow-fever-cases-rise-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287907","title":{"rendered":"Yellow fever cases rise in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Health officials in Brazil say there has been a sharp rise in the cases of yellow fever in the country.<\/p>\n<p>They said there had been 63 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness so far this year, up from seven in the whole of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the cases have been in rural areas of Minas Gerais state, a Ministry of Health statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The government has sent two million doses of yellow fever vaccines to the state.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of Minas Gerais has declared a 180-day state of emergency.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What is yellow fever?<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Caused by a virus that is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Difficult to diagnose and often confused with other diseases or fevers<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Most people recover after the first phase of infection that usually involves fever, muscle and back pain, headache, shivers, loss of appetite, and nausea or vomiting<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">About 15% of people face a second, more serious phase involving high fever, jaundice, bleeding and deteriorating kidney function<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Half of those who enter the &#8220;toxic&#8221; phase usually die within 10 to 14 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/disease\/yellowfev\/en\/\">WHO<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"story-body__line\" \/>\n<p>Of the 63 confirmed cases in Brazil, 35 have proved fatal, Brazilian Health Ministry figures show.<\/p>\n<p>That is the highest number of deaths since at least 2008, the year to which Ministry of Health records date back.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been three confirmed cases in Sao Paulo, Brazil&#8217;s most populous state, and one each in Espiritu Santo and Bahia, which both neighbour Minas.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what has caused the rise in cases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials in Brazil say there has been a sharp rise in the cases of yellow fever in the country. They said there had been 63 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne illness so far this year, up from seven in the whole of 2016. Most of the cases have been in rural areas of Minas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2901,3412,3413],"class_list":["post-287907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-brazil","tag-brazil-hospital","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}