Yellow Fever
Introduction:
Good Morning/Afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the World Health Organization, I am Bronte McLean, member of the United Nations World Health Organization Communicable Disease Task Force or simply the Task Force. The Task Force has sent me today to pitch you two proposals to combat yellow fever, an endemic disease in Africa. My first proposal is to continue with the Yellow Fever Initiative and the second is to control mosquito populations in urban and jungle areas in order to reduce the risk of disease.
Disease in developing countries is a serious issue. Unlike in developed countries, the developing world does not have the same access to medicine and health care, which is at a lower standard than the Western world.
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(WHO YELLOW FEVER INITIATIVE AN INTRO). Urban yellow fever has increase as vaccination rates have dropped and more people are living in urban areas due to urbanisation. Map 2.1 shows the population density of countries in Africa considered as being endemic yellow fever countries. Yellow fever has spread throughout central Africa and is located in tropical regions, which are generally forested. This can be seen on this satellite image courtesy of Google Maps. (which i don’t have attached, sorry) The virus has been found mostly in this area as the temperature, rainfall, and forestry make it the ideal breeding ground of the mosquito Aedes Aegypti, the major carrier of the virus. LINK TO IMPACTS OF YELLOW FEVER SOMEHOW (I don’t really know how to; I’m having some difficulty with the analysis).
There are impacts of yellow fever on developing countries in Africa. One of these is that the disease is very deadly and hard to detect in its initial stage. The endemics in Africa, since the 1980s, have affected predominantly children 15 years and younger, making it a huge issue. Although only 15% of cases are believed to develop into the potentially deadly second stage, having much of the youth of central Africa killed due to a preventable disease means