Yellow Fever Vaccination is available at The Surgery Kincumber. Yellow Fever Vaccination is required for Travellers/visitors to certain countries in South America and Sub Saharan Africa who are over 9 months of age. We are a government accredited Yellow Fever Vaccination centre. We offer Yellow Fever Vaccine to our own patients as well as patients from other practices.

Passport information is required to be entered in the special vaccination booklet.

You will be provided with evidence of Yellow Fever Vaccination in the internationally recognised format.

Please remember to bring your passport for this appointment

Yellow Fever Vaccine - STAMARIL

What is it?

Attenuated 17D strain Yellow Fever (Live) Vaccine in a freeze dried form.

Manufacturing process?

Virus is propagated in specific pathogen free chick embryos.

Who must not have it?

• People who have severe allergic reaction to egg or chicken.
• Children under 6 months of age.
• People with reduced immunity.
• Symptomatic HIV positive people
• Pregnant or breast feeding women
• People with disease of thymus or have their thymus gland removed.
• People who are currently unwell with an infective process.

Other considerations:

• Yellow fever vaccination can not be done within 4 weeks of another live vaccine.
• Yellow Fever Vaccination can however be done at the same time with other live vaccines.

Common Side Effects:

• Headache - 18%
• Tiredness - 16.6%
• Injection site pain, swelling, bruise - 14%
• Fever 8.3%

Rare Adverse Reactions:

• Yellow Fever Vaccine Associated Neurotropic Disease (YEL-AND), a potentially life threatening condition of the nervous system
• Yellow Fever Vaccine Associated Viscerotropic Disease (YEL-AVD) previously known as Febrile Multiple Organ System Failure

Yellow Fever

What is it?

A potentially deadly illness presenting in a wide range from hardly any symptoms at all. Some people can fever, muscle pain back pain, headache, nausea and vomiting losing for 3-4 days. In a smaller number of people, they can go onto have severe fever, and failure of multiple organs leading to bleeding, jaundice and can lead to death in about 50% .

Treatment?

There are no specific treatments. Management is mainly supportive.

How to prevent?

Having Yellow Fever Vaccine, general mosquito bite prevention strategies.

Where is the disease present?

The disease is present in many South American countries as well as Sub-Saharan African countries. The latest list of Yellow Fever endemic countries can be found here.

Yellow Fever Virus

What is it?

It is a micro-organism belonging to Arbovirus (arthropod/insect born) group of viruses belonging to a group called Favivirus. It is carried by day biting mosquitos. Monkeys and humans can remain as reservoirs for the mosquitos to transmit the infection.

References

1. Therapeutic Goods Administration STAMARIL Australian Product Information
2. Work Health Organisation - Yellow Fever Information
3. Center for Disease Control USA - Yellow Fever
4. New South Wales Health - Yellow Fever Fact Sheet