WHO plans to stretch vaccine as yellow fever persists in Africa

Yellow fever still stubbornly persists in Angola’s main hot spot, despite a major influx of vaccine, with the outbreak spreading to new areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, as news emerged that WHO officials are working on a proposal to stretch the limited supply of vaccine. In other new developments, 1 yellow fever case has been confirmed among 22 suspected cases in Ethiopia, and health officials are probing a suspected case and several earlier cases of fever with jaundice in the Republic of Congo. Angola’s outbreak and a related event in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is still concentrated in its main cities, and global health officials remain highly concerned over the threat of wider international spread, especially in countries that neighbor Angola, such as Namibia and Zambia where people aren’t vaccinated, because the risk was previously thought to be low. New developments in Angola, DRC In Angola, four districts in three...