This randomized controlled trial conducted in Kenya and Uganda assessed whether fractional doses of the 17D-204 yellow fever ...
The standard protective dose is almost 14,000 units, but even 500 units raises antibody levels sufficiently to do the job.
Applying Japanese diagnostic techniques for the detection of infectious diseases in Africa Outbreaks of zoonotic arboviral diseases* including yellow fever and Rift Valley fever are frequent in Kenya ...
Yellow fever vaccine is highly effective with a single dose, but vaccine supply is limited. The minimum dose requirements for seroconversion remain unknown. In this double-blind, randomized ...
More Deadly Than War After the Spanish-American War of 1898, during which far more U.S. troops died from yellow fever than in battle, another board came to Cuba in 1900 to study the disease ...
Victims suffered from jaundice, high fever and black vomit. For more than two hundred years, yellow fever — as the disease became known — attacked numerous American cities, usually in severe ...