Yellow Fever travel vaccination in Watford

Flyingmedicine Ltd27 Jul, 2023Health

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. 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%. The Yellow Fever travel vaccination is highly effective at stopping the disease from developing. Yellow fever vaccination is effective from around 10 days after vaccination. It is however a live vaccine 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.