A 24-year-old man was reported as the first case of yellow fever in Argentina, according to the Health minister in the province of Misiones, Jose Guccione.
"He is a citizen from the zone of San Vicente who had not been vaccinated. He is a rural worker who had been in the zone where dead monkeys were found" and they were infected with the disease, Guccione told the TV channel Todo Noticias.
He added that the farmer was hospitalized in the town of Obera, 932 miles northeast of Buenos Aires.
The Argentine official pointed out that it is the first confirmed yellow fever case of three quarantined patients, and added that 800,000 people have been vaccinated in Misiones and the region of Formosa, which are close to Paraguay, where some cases have been reported.
People fear an outbreak of yellow fever in Argentina, where an epidemic hit Buenos Aires in 1871, killing 14,000 people of a population of nearly 200,000 in six months
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