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Herpes zoster after yellow Fever vaccination.

Bayas JM, González-Alvarez R, Guinovart C

Preventive Medicine Service, International Vaccination Centre, Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.

An immunocompetent 64-year-old women presented with brachial herpes zoster (HZ) infection 3 days after vaccination against yellow fever (YF). The lesions disappeared after antiviral treatment. There are very few reports of a possible association between YF vaccination and HZ infection. This case supports the importance of continuing surveillance of vaccine adverse events.

Published 23 January 2007 in J Travel Med, 14(1): 65-6.
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