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Mom's Yellow Fever Jab Transmits Virus to Infant
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Published: February 08, 2011
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
A five-week-old Canadian infant developed yellow fever after his mother was vaccinated against the disease, with the virus apparently transmitted through breast milk, researchers said...
...Primary source: CMAJ
Source reference:
Kuhn S, et al "Case report: Probable transmission of vaccine strain of yellow fever virus to an infant via breast milk" CMAJ 2011; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.100619.
Mom's Yellow Fever Jab Transmits Virus to Infant
By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Published: February 08, 2011
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
A five-week-old Canadian infant developed yellow fever after his mother was vaccinated against the disease, with the virus apparently transmitted through breast milk, researchers said...
...Primary source: CMAJ
Source reference:
Kuhn S, et al "Case report: Probable transmission of vaccine strain of yellow fever virus to an infant via breast milk" CMAJ 2011; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.100619.