Rio de Janeiro state plans to vaccinate its entire population against yellow fever as a precaution amid Brazil’s largest outbreak of the disease in years. The Health Ministry has confirmed more than 300 cases of yellow fever so far during Brazil’s summer rainy season.
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State of Rio de Janeiro to Receive 250,000 Yellow Fever Vaccines
The Health Department in Rio de Janeiro state published a technical note yesterday raising the level of vigilance to patients with symptoms characteristic of yellow fever in the fourteen municipalities in the North and Northwest Fluminense regions that border Minas Gerais and EspA rito Santo states. Municipalities of the North and Northwest of Rio state will receive vaccination 250,000 doses of the yellow fever vaccine as a precaution, photo by Caru Ribeiro/IMPRENSA RJ.