Sentences with phrase «for yellow fever»

Fortunately, a vaccine for yellow fever is readily available and effective.

The fluid is added to cell cultures to test for yellow fever.

There is no cure for yellow fever, but there is a vaccine.

A few weeks later, the results come back: negative for yellow fever.

A vaccine for yellow fever was developed which gives a 10 - year or more immunity from the disease and effectively protects people traveling to the affected areas.

The dengue antibodies were a red herring, he says: both researchers had been vaccinated for the yellow fever virus, which is closely related to dengue; antibodies against these viruses often cross-react.

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported one of its largest emergency vaccination campaigns for the yellow fever virus in Africa.

The CDC states that the yellow fever vaccine should be avoided if you are breastfeeding, but «when nursing mothers can not avoid or postpone travel to areas endemic for yellow fever in which risk for acquisition is high, these women should be vaccinated.»

Dr. Thomas, of London, who practiced a long time in the West Indies, found cayenne pepper an almost sovereign remedy for yellow fever, and almost every other form of human maladies.

The model confirmed and quantified that, even in areas with high transmission potential for yellow fever, the risk varies throughout the year.

We can thank our primate cousins not just for yellow fever but also for HIV, dengue fever, hepatitis B, and vivax malaria.

Even though southern Asia has all the prerequisites for yellow fever — monkeys, mosquitoes, a warm climate — the disease has never gained a foothold on the world's most populous continent.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently brokered deals in several African and South American countries to vaccinate 584 million people for yellow fever over the next decade, with a goal of eliminating all outbreaks worldwide by 2026.

Vaccinating infants for yellow fever is already mandatory in northern and Amazonian states, where the disease is endemic, and some scientists propose extending the law nationwide.

During the Brazilian outbreak, health officials nationwide asked people to report sightings of sick or dead monkeys so they could test for yellow fever.

Further, if you've lived in the U.S. all your life, you've probably never had the one vaccination required by International Health Regulations — the vaccine for yellow fever.

Which then lead me down an awful, awful hours - long rabbit hole of reading the pros and cons of getting vaccinated for yellow fever, even though the first thing I read was that the vaccine isn't required if you're sticking to high altitude areas.

Unfortunately, something dragged the carcass off before authorities could test it for yellow fever.

«The concern is that for dengue fever there is no vaccine,» like there is for yellow fever, says Vishvanath Nene, a molecular biologist at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., and lead author of the paper presenting the genome, published in the online edition of Science.

The scene is now set, say epidemiologists, for yellow fever to spread from the Amazon forest, where it smoulders on in small epidemics, to the sprawling cities of Latin America's eastern seaboard.

Vaccinations — for yellow fever, tetanus, diphtheria — and a host of other nasties.