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Yellow Fever Vaccine
Aka: Yellow Fever Vaccine, YF VAX
- See Also
- Yellow Fever
- Prevention of Vector-borne Infection
- Mechanism
- Live attenuated virus Vaccine
- Indications: Travel to Yellow Fever endemic areas
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Amazon basin of South America
- Dose: Patient over age 9 months
- Dose: 0.5 ml subcutaneous every 10 years
- Contraindications
- Immunocompromised Patient
- HIV Infection
- Immunosuppressive medications
- Pregnancy (relative contraindication)
- Infant under age 6 months
- Hypersensitivity to egg products
- Efficacy
- Effective in 100% of patients for 10 years