Colombian government declares health emergency due to increase in yellow fever cases

Colombian government declares health emergency due to increase in yellow fever cases

By Fernando Ramos and Sanika Tank, CNN (CNN) — Colombia’s health ministry declared a nationwide health emergency on Thursday due to the “active circulation” of yellow fever. Since September 2024, there have been 75 recorded cases of yellow fever and 34 deaths from the illness, according to the Colombian Health Ministry. Nine of the country’s 32 departments have reported at least one case of yellow fever. Most were detected in rural areas of the …

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has ordered that within two months the entire Colombian population be vaccinated against yellow fever in the face of an outbreak that has recently led to the declaration of an economic and health emergency in the nation...

By Fernando Ramos, CNN en Español Colombian Health Minister Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo declared a nationwide health emergency Thursday "due to the active circulation of the yellow fever virus," with the goal of mitigating and controlling its spread. According to figures from the Ministry, 75 cases of infected individuals have been officially registered since September 2024. Of these, 34 have died, representing an average case fatality rate of 4…

In Colombia, the government has declared an emergency because of a yellow fever outbreak.

Petro announces the declaration of the health and economic emergencies due to the outbreak of yellow fever The Colombian president indicates that he lists a national vaccination plan to stop the spread of the disease, for which additional resources are needed By: Emma Jaramillo Bernat-El País "We are again facing a virus", wrote on Tuesday night Colombian president Gustavo Petro, in one of his usual and extensive messages in X. The phrase evokes…

CDC Issues Travel and Vaccine Notice for Yellow Fever in South America

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel notice on Tuesday for the entire South American continent due to elevated levels of yellow fever in several countries. “An increased number of cases of yellow fever have been reported in parts of South America,” the CDC said in its bulletin, referring to a report from the Pan American Health Organization, an arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), that showed that cases of t…