São Paulo registered, in 2025, Two deaths from yellow fever so far. The State Department of Health also confirmed six cases of the disease this month.
The infections are scattered in the interior of the state, in the cities: Socorro, Tuiuti and Joanópolis. In 2024, the state had only one death throughout the year.
THE CNN He confirmed the information firsthand with the portfolio, which reinforces the importance of vaccination as the main form of prevention, as an essential measure to prevent severe cases and protect health.
The immunizer against yellow fever is part of the vaccination schedule and is available in all Basic Health Units (UBS) of the state.
The folder states that it intensified the health surveillance and vaccination actions in the affected regions, aiming to expand the protection of the population .
Learn the symptoms of yellow fever
- Sudden onset of fever;
- Chills;
- Intense headache;
- Back pain;
- Body pain in general;
- Nausea and vomiting;
- Fatigue;
- Weakness.
Who can get vaccinated
- For children under 5 years of age are two doses, the first at 9 months and the second at 4 years.
- For children from the age of 5, the vaccine is a unique dose.
Check out the full note of the São Paulo State Secretariat of Health;
The State Department of Health (SES) reports that this year, until Thursday (23), six cases were confirmed in humans by yellow fever, and of these, two deaths. Three were in Socorro, one in Tuiuti and one in Joanópolis, respectively, and the last, the likely infection site is still under investigation.
The yellow fever vaccine is part of the vaccination schedule and is available in all Basic Health Units (UBS) of the state. Awareness of the population about the importance of routine immunization is an essential measure to prevent severe cases and protect health.
Since 2020, the Ministry of Health (MS) has updated the recommendation for vaccination against disease as follows:
* For children under 5 years of age are two doses, the first at 9 months and the second at 4 years.
* For children from the age of 5, the vaccine is a unique dose.
SES points out that health and vaccination surveillance actions in the regions were intensified, reinforcing the importance and making routine immunization, not only at an epidemic moment, to avoid more serious cases.
Last year, two human cases of yellow fever were recorded in the state of São Paulo: an imported and one imported, which resulted in death.
This content was originally published in SP confirms two deaths by yellow fever by 2025 on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
I’m James Harper, a highly experienced and accomplished news writer for World Stock Market. I have been writing in the Politics section of the website for over five years, providing readers with up-to-date and insightful information about current events in politics. My work is widely read and respected by many industry professionals as well as laymen.
