Immunization Vaccination Drugs

Yellow fever vaccine is recommended for people who plan to live in or travel to areas where yellow fever is known to exist, or where an epidemic has recently occurred. The vaccine should also be given to people who will spend any amount of time in rural areas where yellow fever is endemic or those who are otherwise at high risk of coming into contact with the virus.

You should not receive this vaccine if you have ever had a life threatening allergic reaction to a rabies vaccine.

Before receiving this vaccine, tell the doctor if you have:

• a weak immune system (caused by disease or by using certain medicine);

• any type of infection or severe illness; or

• an allergy to neomycin.

It is not known whether this vaccine will harm an unborn baby. However, if you are at a high risk for infection with rabies during pregnancy, your doctor should determine whether you need this vaccine.

It is not known whether this vaccine passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.

Pertussis vaccine is a vaccine that protects against whooping cough (pertussis).^[1][2] There are two main types: whole-cell vaccines and acellular vaccines.^[1][2] The whole-cell vaccine is about 78% effective while the acellular vaccine is 71–85% effective.^[1][3] The effectiveness of the vaccines appears to decrease by between 2 and 10% per year after vaccination with a more rapid decrease with the acellular vaccines