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Woman Dies after Yellow-Fever Vaccine

| March 20, 2015 Comment

Woman Dies after Yellow-Fever Vaccine – According to a new report of the case, a woman in Oregon who received the yellow fever vaccine developed a rare and ultimately fatal reaction to the shot.

According to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the woman, who was in her 60s, was previously healthy and received the yellow fever vaccine before a trip she was planning to take to South America. But six days after receiving the shot, she went to the emergency room with vomiting, diarrhea and shortness of breath.

Doctors determined that the woman died from a condition called yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease (YEL-AVD), which is a serious reaction to the yellow fever vaccine in which the virus replicates out of control. The reaction is very rare: For every 1 million doses of the vaccine that are distributed, there are about four cases of YEL-AVD, the CDC says.

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