Routine typhoid fever vaccination is highly recommended but currently licensed vaccines provide only 55-75% protection.
Implementation of yellow fever vaccination is currently hampered by limited supply of vaccine.
In addition, these approaches are now also being used to identify biomarkers of infection [4] or to study vaccine-induced responses, such as after yellow fever vaccination [5].
Therefore, to circumvent the consequence of current shortage of vaccine supplies, there is an urgent need to find alternatives for the current standard of yellow fever vaccination, i.e., the subcutaneous administration of 0·5 mL 17D vaccine.
The anticipated implications of the results are changes in vaccine sub-strains used in manufacturing YF vaccine used in several countries and changes in the yellow fever vaccination schedule recommendations in national immunization programs.
Yellow fever vaccination is mandatory.
Before travelling, contact your GP to check the recommended vaccinations, and don't forget your yellow fever vaccination certificate.
A yellow fever vaccination campaign has began in four of those regions, targeting some 2.4 million people.
All visitors to Congo must have a Yellow Fever Vaccination Certificate.
Her yellow fever vaccination card had been stamped by rebel health authorities, and so was invalid, the officials tut-tutted.
There is also a reminder about the so-called yellow fever belt, which covers much of Africa and South America, and the need to carry proof of yellow fever vaccination.
