What’s it that this scientific community will not allow us to rest and think about ourselves! Your guess is as good as mine. But we’re not in the isolation world, we live in scientific world where we cannot see and understand everything although we have eyes. Diseases caused by organisms we cannot see with our naked eyes really exist so we must think the way forward to make this world habitable although we are mortal beings.
Yellow fever is a real disease caused by yellow fever virus. It can be deadly sometimes if contracted. It has no known treatment but symptomatic treatment. The good news is that there is vaccines to prevent this unpleasant disease. WHO described this disease as “acute viral hemorrhagic disease” because when one is infected, it starts as sudden but can be severe with bleeding from the mouth, nose, eyes or stomach. Within three to four days, an infected person may experience fever, headache, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. Others may move to the toxic stage where the liver and kidneys may be infected leading to prominent backache ( this is an indication of kidney disease), jaundice ( yellowing of the skin, eyes) because the liver is not able to perform its functions. This yellowing of the skin and eyes led to the name yellow fever.
According to WHO, about half of those infected who developed these severe symptoms die within seven to ten days. This shows how serious this disease is. One may ask where this disease is coming from? The Yellow Fever is transmitted when one is bitten by infected Aedes Aegyptic mosquitoes. In the Forest, the monkey becomes a reservoir for this yellow fever virus if the monkey is bitten by infected Aedes Aegyptic mosquitoes.
Population within tropical regions like the Sub-Sahara Africa and Central and South America are at risk of yellow fever. This explains why one is traveling to such areas, it is required of him or her to have the yellow card to check the records of yellow fever vaccination. In 2016, Yellow fever became a global threat as it became “urbandemic” in Luanda-Angola, Kinshasa-DR. Congo and the disease being exported to China.
WHO projected to have more than one billion people protected against yellow fever through vaccination by the end of 2026. Together we can do this. A healthy population is a healthy economy! Let work together to make this world a better place for you and me. Just a single dose of yellow fever vaccine is adequate to build sustained immunity and produce a life-long protection against yellow fever. Ghana has started the yellow fever vaccination exercise again, let all get involve to make Ghana, a better country as well as a habitable world to continue procreation.
Yellow fever vaccines are live, weakened form of the yellow fever virus giving as a single shot. This vaccine mimics like the disease as soon as it gets into your system such as weakness, headaches and others because the vaccine becomes antigen which stimulates immune response from the body to produce antibodies to protect you against the disease then after sometime, your body resumes to the normal functioning state. This is why some people have the perception that the vaccine rather makes you sick. But it does not make you sick rather triggers immune response. As I write this, I have taken my single dose of yellow fever vaccines to protect me, what of you and your family! Kindly tell a friend to tell a friend that a single dose of yellow fever vaccines can save the world so let do this together. Thank you for reading. All comments are welcome.
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Kwasi Omaro 
If one shot of this vaccine protects an individual for life & you acknowledge that we had yellow fever vaccination in this country in 2016, then why do we all have to take it again? Kindly explain. Thanks
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Thanks for the question. The yellow fever vaccines is in existence 80years ago. My 2016 mention in the article was in reference to Global threat from Angola, DR. Congo and exported to China. However, Ghana has been carrying this yellow fever vaccination exercise before 2016. This second exercise is targeted to areas Ghana Health Service could not cover, so it is only advisable if you have not taken a single dose of this vaccine to seize this opportunity. If you have already taken the single dose then you’re not part of the target audience but tell a friend who has not to save the world. Thanks. Any further questions are welcome.
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Additionally, Ghana had first case of yellow fever in October, 2011 at the northern and mid-western part of the country. The first phase of yellow fever vaccination started in November, 2011. Thanks.
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