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Re: BOUNCE killietalk at aka_org: Non-member submission from [diana sue katz-dskatz at uswest_net-]
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>From: owner-killietalk at aka_org (by way of Barry J. Cooper)
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>To: killietalk at aka_org
>Subject: BOUNCE killietalk at aka_org: Non-member submission from [diana
>sue katz <dskatz at uswest_net>]
>Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 21:56:24 -0400
>
>The following was posted to PROMED this evening:
>Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:18:36 +0200 From: "L'age-Stehr,
>Johanna" <Lage-StehrJ at rki_de>
> The imported case of haemorrhagic fever in a German
>traveller to Cote d'Ivoire has been confirmed as yellow
>fever. The patient died this morning [6 Aug 1999] in the
>isolation facility of the Charite Hospital in Berlin.
>Yellow fever virus has been isolated from a blood specimen
>taken 3 days after typical symptom onset. The last
>clinical manifestation was anuria [lack of urine] and
>encephalitis.
>
> We have inspected his vaccination certificate he had used
>for the travel and since 1992 and there was no Yellow
>fever vaccination registered.
> - --
> Dr. Johanna L¥age-Stehr
> Robert Koch-Institut
> Nordufer 20
> 13353 Berlin,
> tel: (49)-30-45472244
> FAX(49)-30-45472604
> <lage-stehrj at rki_de>
> [Cote d'Ivoire is in the endemic zone of Africa for
>yellow fever & supposedly requires a yellow fever
>vaccination certificate from all travellers over 1 year of
>age. Somehow this traveller got in without one. That was a
>fatal mistake. In 1996 a Swiss & an American tourist decided
>not to get vaccinated before taking their vacations on the
>Amazon -- both died of yellow fever when they got home (see
>refs above). All these deaths were totally unnecessary.
>The yellow fever vaccine is the world's safest & most
>effective, with almost complete lack of side effects. One
>shot lasts 10 years.
> ***All travellers to tropical Africa & South America
>please take note of the above.***
> NB: neither yellow fever nor any other hemorrhagic fever
>has ever been transmitted from one person to another
>through the air -- not even Ebola in Africa. Therefore
>passengers on the same aircraft do not need to worry. -
>moderator's comments]
>
>Anyone heading into a danger zone should be sure to take the
>proper precautions.
>At least it wasn't Ebola coming back out.
>
>Sue Katz
>
>
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