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• Yellow fever in Peru, World Health Organization, 07 June 2001 -- The Ministry of Health has reported an outbreak of yellow fever in the Department of Loreto, in the Peruvian Amazon Region, in the districts of Puinahua, San Pablo and Iquitos. Eight cases have been laboratory confirmed, of which 2 have died. Twelve additional cases are under investigation.

  May

• Yellow fever in Côte d'Ivoire, World Health Organization, 31 May 2001 -- The Ministry of Health has reported 4 cases including 3 deaths in Danané and Duekoué districts in the south-western part of the country. Yellow fever has been confirmed by IgM detection in a sample collected on 23 March 2001 from a 17 year-old woman who died 24 March 2001. Testing was performed by the Instituts Pasteur, Abidjan and Paris. To date, no further cases have been reported.

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  March

• Yellow fever in Brazil - Update 2 , The White House, Office of the Secretary, 20 March 2001 -- As of 13 March, the Ministry of Health of Brazil and the WHO Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO) have reported a total of 48 suspected cases
• Yellow fever in Brazil - Update, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 07 March 2001 -- As of 6 March, the Ministry of Health of Brazil and the WHO Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO) have reported a total of 35 suspected cases in 4 states
• Disease Outbreaks Reported, World Health Organization, 07 March 2001 -- As of 6 March, the Ministry of Health of Brazil and the WHO Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO) have reported a total of 35 suspected cases in 4 states

  February

• Yellow fever in Brazil, World Health Organization, 28 February 2001 -- The WHO Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO) has reported a total of 9 cases of yellow fever in the Region of Divinopolis, State of Minas Gerais

  January

• GUINEA: UNHCR helping to fight yellow fever, Integrated Regional Information Network, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 23 January 2001 -- UNHCR is helping the Guinean health authorities fight a yellow fever epidemic that has already claimed 220 lives in northern and eastern Guinea
• Yellow fever - Liberia (Southwest): RFI , ProMED-mail, 04 January 2001 -- ProMED-mail has heard from a reliable source that a case of yellow fever with onset in December 2000 has been reported from Rivercress county in southwestern Liberia

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