Diana Pava, director of the National Institute of Health of Colombia: “There is a latent risk that yellow fever will reach urban areas. It would be catastrophic.”

Airlines operating in Ecuador that have flights that connect with neighbouring countries began to notify passengers about Ecuador's new obligation to present the international yellow fever vaccination certificate.

Yellow fever, which kills about 30,000 people in the world every year, seemed like a problem of the past in Colombia. The cases were minimal: 11 between 2013 and 2023, according to the National Institute of Health (INS). But a new outbreak has set off alarms. 83 cases have been counted since September, with a lethality of 44% (37 dead). It is particularly worrying that the epicenter is Tolima, a department in the center of the country that the j…

In view of the increase in cases of immunopreventable diseases, such as yellow fever and pertussis, the National Government ordered 14 measures of health response to the epidemiological alert in Ecuador. The entry These are the 14 measures adopted in Ecuador for yellow fever and pertussis was first published in Teleamazonas.

Government established measures to prevent yellow fever on road trips. Image: taken from @TransitoBta, on Twitter In response to the health emergency declared by the Petro government to address the outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia, the Ministry of Transport reinforced controls on road and maritime mobility, with demands that will impact users, companies and drivers. The circular dictates that users should be required to “when making the purc…