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Yellow Fever Vaccine May Have Caused Cases Of Severe Illness.(Brief Article)

Vaccine Weekly

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2001 AUG 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

A report from the U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says that the 17D-derived yellow fever vaccine may be responsible for causing severe illness in seven people.

Approximately 300 million people worldwide have received the yellow fever vaccine. These seven cases represent the first reports of illness associated possibly with the vaccine between 1996-2001. Although not proven in all cases, yellow fever vaccine may have been the cause of illness.

Kathleen Julian, MD, with NCID in Fort Collins, Colorado, and colleagues reported in the August 3, 2001, edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that an investigation has been initiated to improve documentation of clinical evidence for this rare ...

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