Common side effects of yellow fever vaccine may include: fever; vomiting, nausea; headache; joint or muscle pain; tiredness or weakness; or pain, discomfort, redness, swelling, or a hard lump (induration) where the infection was given. ...
The yellow fever vaccine is used to help prevent this disease in adults and children who are at least 9 months old. This vaccine works by exposing you to a small dose of the virus, which causes the body to develop immunity to the disease. This vaccine will not treat an active infection ...
✓Adults 60 years of age and older ✓Infants 6-8 months of age ✓Pregnant women and nursing mothers How do doctors decide? When the chance of getting yellow fever in the country you are visiting is higher than the chance of side effects, a vaccine is advised; if the opposite is tr...
Drugs containing Yellow Fever Vaccine:YF-Vax, Stamaril Summary Drug levels Infants Lactation/breastmilk Yellow Fever Vaccine Levels and Effects while Breastfeeding Summary of Use during Lactation The yellow fever virus and vaccine can be transmitted into breastmilk although the frequency of transmission...
In 1927 researchers from theRockefeller Institute for Medical Research, working inWest Africaand the United States, demonstrated that yellow fever was transmitted by a specific virus, and over the next decade avaccinewas developed fromattenuatedstrains of the virus (an achievement for which Rockefeller...
Known side effects of yellow fever Themain side effects of yellow feverare high body temperature, a slow pulse, albuminuria, jaundice, congestion of the face, and hemorrhage or bleeding. In the initial stage, it can cause muscle aches, particularly at the back and knees; a high fever; dizzi...
vaccine) is a vaccine used to help prevent yellow fever in adults and children who are at least 9 months old. Yellow fever is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. YF-Vax is recommended for people who plan travel to areas where yellow fever is known to exist, for people who...
A single dose of yellow fever vaccine provides long-lasting protection to most healthy individuals. (SeeCLINICAL PHARMACOLOGYsection.) However, an additional dose of yellow fever vaccine may be given to individuals who might not have had an adequate or sustained immune response to prior yellow fever...
People who are currently very unwell (such as with a high fever) – this is to avoid confusing the diagnosis of your current illness with any side effects from the vaccine Yellow fever naïve travellers – those who have not been previously exposed to the vaccine who are 60 years of age...
All cases in first-time vaccinees; age >60 yr are at particular risk • Yellow fever vaccine response can be significantly reduced by coadministration of the live virus combined vaccine with measles, mumps, and rubella. • YF-Vax became unavailable in the U.S. in mid-2017, and the sho...