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Yellow Fever Outbreak in Brazil: A crucial time for epidemiologic surveillance
Brazil lived a crucial time for public health and epidemiologic surveillance on the fight against yellow fever (YF) during 2016/2017, mainly in southeastern states where the greatest population concentration occurs, the most economically developed region of the country. In this letter, we show some epidemiologic data from that outbreak and we discussion that crucial time for epidemiologic surveillanc
COVID-19 infection in the indigenous population: scoping review protocol
This is a scope review protocol, whose object of analysis to be studied,COVID-19 infection in the indigenous population. Infectious diseases in the indigenous population tend to spread quickly and reach a large part of the population due to the collective way of life and the difficulties in implementing non-pharmacological preventive measures, in addition to their geographic location, which contributes to an increase in the risk of complications and deaths from covid-19. The present study aims to map the available evidence about COVID-19 infection in the indigenous population