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Yellow fever in two unvaccinated French tourists to Brazil, January and March, 2018

Emma Oliosi 1, * Chantal Serero Corcos 2 Paulo Feijo Barroso 3 Alexandre Bleibtreu 1 Gilda Grard 4 Bispo Ana Maria de Filippis 5 Eric Caumes 1
* Corresponding author
1 Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière]
2 Consulat général de France [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]
3 HUCFF / UFRJ - Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho [Rio de Janeiro]
4 Centre National de Référence des Arbovirus [Marseille]
IRBA - Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées [Antenne Marseille], Unité d'Arbovirologie [Marseille]
5 FIOCRUZ - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Abstract : We report two yellow fever cases in unvaccinated French travellers in Brazil in January and March 2018, respectively; one exposed during an excursion in Minas Gerais and the other in Ilha Grande. Both presented with fever, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia and leucopenia. Yellow fever diagnosis was based on RT-PCR and serological tests. Both patients recovered within a few days. The increasing occurrence of cases in unvaccinated travellers highlights the need to reinforce vaccination recommendation for travellers at-risk.
Keywords : Brazil outbreaks vaccines and immunisation vector-borne infections viral infections yellow fever yellow fever virus.
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Emma Oliosi, Chantal Serero Corcos, Paulo Feijo Barroso, Alexandre Bleibtreu, Gilda Grard, et al.. Yellow fever in two unvaccinated French tourists to Brazil, January and March, 2018. Eurosurveillance, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2018, 23 (21), Epub ahead of print. ⟨10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.21.1800240⟩. ⟨inserm-02375036⟩

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