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Article: Yellow Fever Vaccine.
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
- Author:
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To the Editor: Monath et al. (1) outlined existing facilities for distribution of yellow fever vaccines in the United States and pointed to difficulties for prospective vaccinees in remote locations. Their recommendation that primary health-care providers be allowed to dispense yellow fever vaccination merits serious consideration. Acceptance of such a strategy in the United States would inevitably be emulated elsewhere. Nevertheless, before such a strategy is approved, vaccine potency should be monitored at distribution points, and a sample of vaccine recipients should be examined for vaccine-induced immune response.
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