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ON the occasion of the first celebration of the Panamerican Health Day on December 2, 1941, Dr. Waldemar Antunes gave a survey of the yellow fever situation in Brazil (Bol. Of. San. Panamericana, 21, 758; 1942). The special control measures applied to all inhabited zones have resulted in the disappearance of yellow fever from the country since 1934. The discovery, however, in 1932 of a jungle form of the disease has necessitated the employment of coordinated measures by every American country in the fight against the Stegomyia mosquito. Owing to the work carried out in Brazil by the Yellow Fever Service, of which Dr. Antunes is the director, no Stegomyia have been found for several years in the States of Maranhao, Espirito Santo, Goiaz, ParanĂ¡, and Santa Catarina ; 2,084,839 persons have been inoculated against jungle yellow fever by the National Yellow Fever Service.
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Yellow Fever in Brazil. Nature 150, 573 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150573d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150573d0