Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Seasonality of agricultural exposure as an important predictor of seasonal yellow fever spillover in Brazil

  • Arran Hamlet,
  • Daniel Garkauskas Ramos,
  • Katy A. M. Gaythorpe,
  • Alessandro Pecego Martins Romano,
  • Tini Garske,
  • Neil M. Ferguson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23926-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Yellow fever virus (YFV) is an arbovirus affecting humans and non-human primates (NHPs) with seasonal transmission. Here Hamlet et al. model the monthly occurrence of YF in humans and NHPs across Brazil and show that seasonality of agriculture is an important predictor of seasonal YF transmission.