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Miami among cities at risk from yellow fever spread: study

The downtown skyline of Miami, Florida is seen on Nov 5, 2015. (Reuters)

Miami is at risk of a deadly yellow fever outbreak because the disease could thrive there but the city has no checks on travelers arriving from endemic zones, a study to be published by the World Health Organization showed.

Yellow fever is spread by the same mosquito that causes Zika virus, which spread through the Americas after being detected in Brazil in 2015 and has been reported in southern Florida and southern Texas.

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