Yellow fiver on Earth

Yellow fever is a disease that is spread by mosquitoes. Unlike malaria, also carried by mosquitoes, yellow fever is not found in Southern Asia. This disease is almost exclusively found in Northern Africa (68% of cases) and South America (31% of cases).
Yellow fever is also known as black vomit (vomit negro in Spanish). Both of these names describe some of the more severe symptoms. “Yellow fever” due to the fever and jaundice that can occur. “Black vomit” because of the congealed blood in the sick of its victims.
A vaccine against yellow fever exists, but not everyone has access to this. 1 in 10 yellow fever cases lead to death.

The map shows the distribution of yellow fever on Earth. You can see a distortion on the map according to the  maldistribution of the yellow fever cases, territory size shows the proportion of worldwide cases
of yellow fever found there, 1995-2004. 

Here you can read the most cases and the highest case rates:

Yearly cases between 1995 and 2004
Rank        Country         Number of cases
1             Cote d'Ivoire   92
2             Peru              61
3             Colombia       30
4             Bolivia           10
5             Burkina Faso 10
6             Cameroon       6
7             Guinea            6
9             Brazil              5
9             Liberia            5
9             Venezuela       5

Rate of cases: case per 100 000 person between 1995 and 2004:
Rank         Country             rate
1               Liberia               1.81
2               Guinea               1.08
3               Cote d'Ivoire       0.44
4               Peru                  0.38
5               Senegal              0.35
6               Bolivia                0.32
7               Benin                 0.27
8               Sierra Leone      0.26
9               Gabon                0.12
10             Western Sahara  0.11

Technical notes
© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)