Environmental determinants predicting population vulnerability to high yellow fever incidence.

ABSTRACT: Yellow fever (YF) is an endemic mosquito-borne disease in Brazil, though many locations have not observed cases in recent decades. Some locations with low disease burden may resemble locations with higher disease burden through environmental and ecohydrological characteristics, which are known to impact YF burden, motivating increased or continued prevention measures such as vaccination, mosquito control or surveillance. This study aimed to use environmental characteristics to estimate vulnerability to observing high YF burden among all Brazilian municipalities. Vulnerability was defined in three categories based on yearly incidence between 2000 and 2017: minimal, low and high vulnerability. A cumulative logit model was fit to these categories using environmental and ecohydrological predic

SUBMITTER: Servadio JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8889195 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature