Bogotá (Reuters) -the Colombian authorities declared a nationwide well being emergency on Wednesday as a result of Wednesday as a result of a rise in circumstances of yellow fever.
The outbreak has resulted in 74 confirmed circumstances and 34 deaths for the reason that starting of final yr, stated Minister of Well being, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo.
Yellow fever is a viral illness transmitted by Aedes’s chunk and Haemagogus mosquitoes.
Jaramillo stated probably the most essential state of affairs is in Tolima, within the middle of western Colombia, the place 22 circumstances have been detected.
(Luis Jaime Acosta report; Tom Hogue and Christopher Cushing’s version)