Yellow fever: is Asia bound to encounter the virus?

Future VirologyAhead of Print EditorialYellow fever: is Asia bound to encounter the virus?Baijayantimala Mishra, Sutapa Rath, Monalisa Mohanty & Prabhudutta MamidiBaijayantimala Mishra *Author for correspondence: Tel.: +91 943 888 4121; E-mail Address: bmishramicro@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2604-6678Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751019, Odisha, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author, Sutapa Rath https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0790-1448Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751019, Odisha, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author, Monalisa Mohanty https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3940-1998Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751019, Odisha, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author & Prabhudutta Mamidi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0187-571XDepartment of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751019, Odisha, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:8 Sep 2023https://doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2023-0128AboutSectionsView ArticleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleKeywords: aedes mosquitoAfricaarbovirusAsiatransmissionyellow feverPapers of special note have been highlighted as: • of interest; •• of considerable interestReferences1. 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