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China has reported five yellow fever cases all in people not previoulsy vaccinated against the disease. The infected Chinese workers who were returning from Angola were diagnosed in Beijing and Shanghai.
(Via China Daily - accessed 23/03/16)
There is no yellow fever circulating in China, however, the vector mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is present and there is a risk that yellow fever virus could be introduced into the mosquito population if a patient, viraemic with yellow fever was to be bitten by a mosquito. The dengue fever season begins in July in this part of China.
For this reason China has a YF certificate requirement: A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required for travellers over 9 months of age arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and for all travellers having transited through the airport of a country with risk of yellow fever transmission.
