Brazil Battles Worst Yellow Fever Outbreak Since 1942 Epidemic

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - MARCH 28 : Residents of the Parque Anhanguera neighborhood live very close to Mata areas and are the main transmission points of the Yellow Fever virus on March 28, 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The mosquito that transmits the disease stings monkeys and then stings humans thus spreading the spread of the epidemic on.The neighborhood is near the woods, where the mosquito transmitting wild yellow fever lives. According to data from the Ministry of Health since July 2017 so far there have been 1,131 cases and 338 deaths from the disease. Last month the Ministry of Health expanded vaccination to the whole country. (Photo by Victor Moriyama/Getty Images)