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| | Emerging Infectious Diseases: Yellow fever virus infectivity for Bolivian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes |
 | | Experiments with Aedes aegypti from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, demonstrated infection (100%), dissemination (20%), and transmission of a Bolivian YFV strain (CENETROP-322). |
 | | In the urban cycle, YFV is transmitted to humans by Aedes aegvpti mosquitoes (1). |
 | | In 2003, a total of 226 cases of jungle YF were reported from South America to the Pan American Health Organization, and as of June 23, ongoing outbreaks in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru during 2004 have thus far resulted in 86 confirmed cases and 41 deaths (2). |
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