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- Title
Is vaccinating monkeys against yellow fever the ultimate solution for the Brazilian recurrent epizootics?
- Authors
Massad, Eduardo; Miguel, Mônica Manir; Coutinho, Francisco Antonio Bezerra; Miguel, Mônica Manir
- Abstract
Vaccinating monkeys against yellow fever (YF) has been a common practice in the beginning of the 17D vaccine development. Although it may seem strange at first sight, vaccinating monkeys as a public health strategy is, we think, feasible and theoretically could eliminate the infection among non-human primates, interrupting the virus circulation (or significantly reducing it) and therefore reducing the risk of spilling over to the human population. We propose a series of studies that could demonstrate (or not) the efficacy and feasibility of vaccinating non-human primates YF reservoirs living in green areas of urban centres to cut off or curb the virus circulation that recurrently spill over to the human population. Therefore, vaccinating monkeys in relatively small green areas of the urban centres is perhaps the ultimate solution for the Brazilian recurrent YF epizootics.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PRIMATE diseases; MONKEY diseases; PUBLIC health; URBAN health; DISEASE relapse; ANIMAL experimentation; ANIMAL diseases; COMPARATIVE studies; IMMUNIZATION; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; METROPOLITAN areas; PRIMATES; RESEARCH; YELLOW fever; YELLOW fever vaccines; EVALUATION research; PREVENTION
- Publication
Epidemiology & Infection, 2018, Vol 146, Issue 13, p1622
- ISSN
0950-2688
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S0950268818002273