The risk of urban yellow fever resurgence in Aedes-infested American cities.

Eduardo Massad ORCID logo; Marcos Amaku ORCID logo; Francisco Antonio BezerraCoutinho; Claudio JoséStruchiner; Luis Fernandez Lopez ORCID logo; GiovaniniCoelho; Annelies Wilder-Smith ORCID logo; Marcelo NascimentoBurattini; (2018) The risk of urban yellow fever resurgence in Aedes-infested American cities. Epidemiology and infection, 146 (10). pp. 1219-1225. ISSN 0950-2688 DOI: 10.1017/S0950268818001334
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Aedes aegypti, historically known as yellow fever (YF) mosquito, transmits a great number of other viruses such as Dengue, West Nile, Chikungunya, Zika, Mayaro and perhaps Oropouche, among others. Well established in Africa and Asia, Aedes mosquitoes are now increasingly invading large parts of the American continent, and hence the risk of urban YF resurgence in the American cities should because of great concern to public health authorities. Although no new urban cycle of YF was reported in the Americas since the end of an Aedes eradication programme in the late 1950s, the high number of non-vaccinated individuals that visit endemic areas, that is, South American jungles where the sylvatic cycle of YF is transmitted by canopy mosquitoes, and return to Aedes-infested urban areas, increases the risk of resurgence of the urban cycle of YF. We present a method to estimate the risk of urban YF resurgence in dengue-endemic cities. This method consists in (1) to estimate the number of Aedes mosquitoes that explains a given dengue outbreak in a given region; (2) calculate the force of infection caused by the introduction of one infective individual per unit area in the endemic area under study; (3) using the above estimates, calculate the probability of at least one autochthonous YF case per unit area produced by one single viraemic traveller per unit area arriving from a YF endemic or epidemic sylvatic region at the city studied. We demonstrate that, provided the relative vector competence, here defined as the capacity to being infected and disseminate the virus, of Ae. aegypti is greater than 0.7 (with respect to dengue), one infected traveller can introduce urban YF in a dengue endemic area.



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