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 Jose 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 Jose 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.
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