On 23 July 2020 the France IHR National Focal Point reported a confirmed autochthonous locally acquired case of yellow fever in a 14 year old male in French Guiana On 17 July 2020 the case was laboratory confirmed at the French National Reference Centre for arboviruses Institute Pasteur Cayenne The case patient had severe disability and developed dengue like symptoms on 12 July On 16 July he was hospitalized in an intensive care unit in Cayenne French Guiana with consciousness disorders and acute liver failure and died on 19 July