%0 Journal Article %T Yellow fever in the Americas: risks for the Caribbean islands. %T La fièvre jaune dans les Amériques : risques pour les îles de la Caraïbe %+ Arbovirus et Insectes Vecteurs - Arboviruses and Insect Vectors %A Gabiane, Gaelle %A Failloux, Anna-Bella %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1267-8694 %J Virologie %I John Libbey Eurotext %V 23 %N 6 %P 36-37 %8 2019-11-01 %D 2019 %R 10.1684/vir.2019.0800 %M 31859260 %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/VirologyJournal articles %X Yellow fever (YF) is a viral hemorrhagic fever with a case fatality rate up to 50%. Yellow fever virus (YFV; Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) is an historical example of the first arbovirus identified as transmitted by a mosquito vector [1]. YFV is found in 44 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America, and seven virus genotypes have been identified, five in Africa and two in America [2]. First isolated in West Africa in 1927, YFV is primarily transmitted in a forest cycle between non-human %G English %L pasteur-02434698 %U https://pasteur.hal.science/pasteur-02434698 %~ PASTEUR %~ TEST3-HALCNRS