Yellow Fever -- Angola
In a number of instances in previous posts, but not in the current one, it has been stated that suspicion of yellow fever was ruled out because the patients had been vaccinated. It is certainly true that many causes of illness mimicking yellow fever exist. One of these is the rare occurrence of reactions to the vaccine itself. Such cases have been labeled yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease (YEL-AVD) (Seligman SJ. Risk groups for yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic
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