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• Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 11:33 UTC

  Yellow fever is spreading in Brazil infecting and killing monkeys and humans

  

  Yellow fever, a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is spreading through Brazil, infecting and killing both monkeys and humans. According to the latest reports from local scientists, several thousand monkeys -- most of them howler monkeys -- have been killed by the virus since the outbreak began in late 2016.