‘We didn’t expect this’: A historic yellow fever outbreak spreads in Brazil

IPANEMA, MINAS GERAIS, Brazil – His nicotine-yellow eyes and haunted stare gave José de Moraes the look of a man who had been to the brink of death and back again. “I am debilitated,” he said. A 54-year-old city council employee, de Moraes caught yellow fever two months ago, the same strain that has killed nearly…