Situation Report: Yellow fever outbreak in Angola, 26 February 2016
A cluster of hemorrhagic fever cases iniated in early December was idenfied on 30 December 2015 in Viana district, Luanda, Angola; was confirmed by the yellow fever reference laboratory in Instute Pasteur in Dakar (IPD) on January 20 2016. The high risk of transmission of the disease in the province of Luanda was then confirmed by a WHO expert mission. A massive vaccinaon was launched on 02 February 2016 in Viana district. WHO classified this outbreak as a Grade 2 Emergency according to Emergency Response Framework (ERF) criteria, and an Incident Manager and a HQ-AFRO Task Force were deployed to, together with WHO Angola Team support the country in the fight against the YF outbreak.
