(16 Apr 2025)
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Bogota Colombia 16 April 2025
1. Various of people waiting for yellow fever vaccinations in Bogota, Colombia
2. Woman getting the vaccine
3. Official preparing the vaccine
4. Various of people being vaccinated
to two people traveling outside of Bogota.
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) David Suarez, Local resident:
" (I am getting the vaccine) for two reasons; one personal for health, because I am going to travel, and second, for a social reason, which is simply to comply with what the president has told us, and be aware that this is everyone’s problem. We have to get the vaccine so this virus does not spread."
6. People waiting to get the vaccine
7. Man getting vaccinated
8. Syringes
9. Man getting vaccinated
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristopher Cabrera, Mexican citizen:
"Well, because I’m going on a tour to Medellín. We’re going to the Nápoles Hacienda and, well, we were recommended that it was a good idea to get the yellow fever vaccine. Honestly, we didn’t think about it. But since it was already here at the terminal, it’s on our way."
11. Various of travellers with their luggage
12. People waiting to get the vaccine
STORYLINE:
Colombians queued up at at a public health post, set up in front of a bus terminal in Bogotá on Wednesday to get vaccinated against yellow fever.
This was after a call made hours earlier by President Gustavo Petro, who declared a health and economic emergency due to a new outbreak of the disease that has left more than 30 dead, especially in the centre-west of the country.
Dozens of people waited in line to receive the vaccine at Bogota’s land transport terminal, the central point from which travellers depart to various cities, especially during the Easter holiday season.
The country has registered 74 confirmed cases this year, including 32 deaths, Petro said the day before announcing the health emergency. The government has yet to issue a decree specifying its scope.
Yellow fever regularly causes fever, muscle pain and nausea. Some patients also experience jaundice – yellowing of the skin – which gives the disease its name. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Petro raised the alert for the yellow fever outbreak, warning that it could spread beyond the departments that usually report some cases or maintain vigilance because of their hot climates. He said Bogotá remains at risk, not because of yellow fever transmission, but because of travellers coming from at-risk areas.
"If the mosquito behaved as it used to, there would be no infection in coffee-growing areas. But today there is, because the average temperature has risen due to greenhouse gases," he said on Wednesday from X, formerly Twitter.
AP Video shot by Marko Alvarez
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