From groundreport.com
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BY: PETER MASSAQUOI for Ceasefire Liberia
Just a day before the start of the integrated yellow fever vaccination exercise in Liberia, some aggrieved health workers in Montserrado County have threatened to boycott the process if the ministry fails to augment their daily stipend.
According to the aggrieved health workers, they were informed by sources from the World Health Organization, one of the government's implementing partners, that they...
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Yellow fever vaccination begins in Cote d'IvoireAfrique en LigueA vaccination campaign against yellow fever was due to be launched Saturday in Benguele, north-western Cote d'Ivoire, where the scourge is raging, ...
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Yellow fever is an acute systemic illness - a hemorrhagic fever - caused by the Flavivirus. Acute means it comes on (onset) rapidly, while systemic means it affects the whole body. In severe cases yellow fever causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin and the death of cells in the liver and kidney. Liver damage results in severe jaundice - yellowing of the skin; hence the name "yellow fever". The mosquito Aedes aegypti, and some other...
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From medicalnewstoday.com
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MONTSERRADO COUNTY, Liberia, 21 December 2009 – The largest immunization campaign ever conducted in Liberia took place last month, targeting over three million people, or 90 per cent of the population. The immunization was against Yellow Fever, a potentially lethal infection transmitted by mosquitoes.
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From unicef.org
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Johannesburg - Health workers are about to launch a yellow fever vaccination campaign for nearly 12 million West Africans. World Health Organisation spokesperson Aphaluck Bhatiasevi said the workers will begin vaccinating in Benin, Liberia and Sierra ...
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