A public health risk assessment for yellow fever vaccination: a model exemplified by an outbreak in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

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Title: A public health risk assessment for yellow fever vaccination: a model exemplified by an outbreak in the state of São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Ana Freitas Ribeiro, Ciléa Tengan, Helena Keico Sato, Roberta Spinola, Melissa Mascheretti, Ana Cecilia Costa França, Marcio Port-Carvalho, Mariza Pereira, Renato Pereira de Souza, Marcos Amaku, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, Luis Fernandez Lopez, Eduardo Massad
Source: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol 110, Iss 2, Pp 230-234 (2015)
Publisher Information: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), 2015.
Publication Year: 2015
Collection: LCC:Microbiology
LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Subject Terms: yellow fever, vaccination, side-effects, mathematical models, optimisation, risk estimation, Microbiology, QR1-502, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
More Details: We propose a method to analyse the 2009 outbreak in the region of Botucatu in the state of São Paulo (SP), Brazil, when 28 yellow fever (YF) cases were confirmed, including 11 deaths. At the time of the outbreak, the Secretary of Health of the State of São Paulo vaccinated one million people, causing the death of five individuals, an unprecedented number of YF vaccine-induced fatalities. We apply a mathematical model described previously to optimise the proportion of people who should be vaccinated to minimise the total number of deaths. The model was used to calculate the optimum proportion that should be vaccinated in the remaining, vaccine-free regions of SP, considering the risk of vaccine-induced fatalities and the risk of YF outbreaks in these regions.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1678-8060
0074-0276
Relation: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762015000200230&lng=en&tlng=en; https://doaj.org/toc/1678-8060
DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140345
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/05c1a07473bb427695fd4c2a4ea320ee
Accession Number: edsdoj.05c1a07473bb427695fd4c2a4ea320ee
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:16788060
00740276
DOI:10.1590/0074-02760140345
Published in:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Language:English