Global & Disaster Medicine

Between 18 March and 1 April 2016, China notified WHO of 8 additional imported cases of yellow fever that recently returned to China from Angola.

WHO

The Chinese government has taken the following measures:

  • intensifying multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration,
  • strengthening surveillance, vector monitoring and risk assessment,
  • enhancing clinical management of yellow fever cases,
  • conducting vector control activities,
  • carrying out public risk communication activities,
  • deploying a medical team to Angola to provide yellow fever vaccination to unvaccinated Chinese nationals.

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