Yellow Fever Strategic Response Plan: June-August 2016

World Health Organization. 06/20/2016This 35-page document guides the international response to the 2016 yellow fever outbreak in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda, and supports other countries to prepare for the importation of cases. The plan focuses on what is needed to help countries to accelerate surveillance, launch mass vaccination campaigns, intensify vector control, effectively communicate risks, manage clinical cases, and fast-track research and development of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - June 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news