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===Current status=== Using vector control and strict vaccination programs, the urban cycle of yellow fever was nearly eradicated from South America.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yellow fever |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/yellow-fever |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=World Health Organization |language=en}}</ref> Since 1943, only a single urban outbreak in [[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]], Bolivia, has occurred. Since the 1980s, however, the number of yellow fever cases has been increasing again, and ''A. aegypti'' has returned to the urban centers of South America. This is partly due to limitations on available insecticides, as well as habitat dislocations caused by climate change. It is also because the vector control program was abandoned. Although no new urban cycle has yet been established, scientists believe this could happen again at any point. An outbreak in [[Paraguay]] in 2008 was thought to be urban in nature, but this ultimately proved not to be the case.<ref name=Toll2009/> In Africa, virus eradication programs have mostly relied upon vaccination.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Deressa W, Kayembe P, Neel AH, Mafuta E, Seme A, Alonge O | title = Lessons learned from the polio eradication initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia: analysis of implementation barriers and strategies | journal = BMC Public Health | volume = 20 | issue = Suppl 4 | page = 1807 | date = December 2020 | pmid = 33339529 | pmc = 7747367 | doi = 10.1186/s12889-020-09879-9 | doi-access = free }}</ref> These programs have largely been unsuccessful because they were unable to break the [[sylvatic cycle]] involving wild primates. With few countries establishing regular vaccination programs, measures to fight yellow fever have been neglected, making the future spread of the virus more likely.<ref name=Toll2009/>
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