The 1970 yellow fever epidemic in Okwoga District, Benue Plateau State, Nigeria

Type Journal Article - Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Title The 1970 yellow fever epidemic in Okwoga District, Benue Plateau State, Nigeria
Author(s)
Volume 49
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 1973
Page numbers 113-121
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481124/pdf/bullwho00169-0003.pdf
Abstract
A focal epidemic ofyellow fever occurred in late 1970 in southern Benue Plateau State,
Nigeria, I year after a much larger outbreak in northern Nigeria. Like its predecessor, the
1970 epidemic was associated with virus transmission by wild-breeding Stegomyia mosquitos.
Epidemiological data on the outbreak are reported in this paper.

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