The vaccine shortage comes as multiple yellow fever outbreaks have spread in different areas of the globe. In Brazil an outbreak erupted in December 2016, with 681 confirmed cases and 234 ...

The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, has issued an alert, warning ...

Parts of Africa and South America are dealing with multiple outbreaks of yellow fever. Right now, researchers at SLU are ...

Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquitoes and could potentially be deadly. While not a risk here in the U.S., it is for many ...

Saint Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development is asking for 70 adult volunteers to participate a clinical trial ...

In the absence of very large yellow fever vaccine stocks I think it would be extraordinarily difficult to get ahead of an outbreak like that — which would mean lots of dead people." ...

Yellow fever "transmission in 2016 has been explosive and rapidly exhausted the usual global emergency stockpile of 6 million vaccine doses," according to WHO officials in an August 6 statement.

Yellow fever vaccine is one of the more reactogenic vaccines, meaning it can cause discomfort. And in rare cases, it can trigger serious illness. “It’s a theoretical potential benefit.

So far this year the WHO — and the partners with which it maintains a yellow fever vaccine stockpile — have sent 13 million doses to Angola. But spread there continues, Costa said.

Yellow fever is a relative of dengue, Zika and chikungunya but is far deadlier. It’s also the only virus in the family that has a good vaccine to prevent it.

What is your opinion about our getting the yellow fever vaccine? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it ”should be given cautiously to people ...