Yellow fever is spreading in Africa, but U.S. officials aren’t worried about the virus reaching American borders.
Yellow fever is similar to the Zika virus that is spreading in Latin America in that they both are spread by mosquito bites. However, yellow fever is far deadlier than the Zika virus, which rarely kills people.
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