Yellow fever in Watford

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Yellow fever Watford
Yellow fever describes the symptoms people get
when they are affected by the Yellow Fever i.e
their eyes become yellow (jaundiced) and they
develop a high fever.
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Yellow Fever Vaccination
The disease is caused by a virus which is
transmitted to people after they are bitten by an
infected mosquito. The disease causes jaundice
because of liver damage, bleeding, fever and can
eventually become fatal. Current fatality rates
are around 8-10.
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Yellow Fever Vaccination
The Yellow Fever vaccination is highly effective
at stopping the disease from developing. It is
effective from around 10 days following
vaccination.
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Yellow Fever Vaccination
It is however a live vaccine which is restricted
therefore to people whose immune system is
reduced for example those who have recently had
chemotherapy, those on immune modulating
medications and those with HIV whose CD4 count is
below 200 should not be vaccines with this travel
vaccine.  
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Yellow Fever Vaccination
As humans can also transfer the disease when they
travel from affected countries to non- affected
countries, an international certificate for
yellow fever vaccination is required for travel
to several countries.
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Yellow Fever Vaccination
The Yellow Fever certificate comes into effect
ten days after vaccination and now lasts the
lifetime. People who have previously been
vaccinated can be vaccinated again if they lose
or misplace their certificates.
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