Overview
- The Health Ministry confined free immunization to predefined risk areas and projected $697,566 in savings from a 34% cut in vaccine purchases.
- Officials plan to ship 44,600 additional doses to Formosa, Misiones, Corrientes and specified departments of Jujuy, Salta and Chaco, adding to 425,100 distributed this year.
- Regional transmission has intensified across Latin America under a PAHO alert, with increases reported in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.
- Infectious‑disease experts caution that yellow fever’s lethality approaches 40–42% in the unvaccinated and that Aedes aegypti in Argentina could enable outbreaks seeded by viremic travelers.
- Access outside risk zones shifts to the private market at around 200,000–220,000 pesos per dose, and in cities like Rosario public services generally do not provide the vaccine except in limited cases.