Fiebre amarilla en niños menores de doce años

Abstract

1. A brief analysis is presented of 16 cases of yellow fever in children under 12, observed in the Infecto-contagious ward of Hospital San Juan de Dios, San José during the 1951-52 epidemic in Costa Rica.

2. The low mortality among children (6.2%) is stressed, in contrast to that among adults (27.4%).

3. Symptomatology in children was the same as in adults, althouhh in general milder; the one difference being that in none of the 16 cases was clinical icterus or subicterus observed. Dios. San José durine: the 1951-52 enidemic in Costa Rica.

4. The benignity of yellow fever in children is noted, and brief report is made of a serious case which evolved rapidly towards recovery.