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Yellow Fever Vaccination is available at The Surgery Kincumber. Yellow Fever Vaccination is required for Travellers/visitors to certain countries in South America and Sub Saharan Africa who are over 9 months of age. We are a government accredited Yellow Fever Vaccination centre. We offer Yellow Fever Vaccine to our own patients as well as patients from other practices.
The vaccination is by one injection in the shoulder.
Passport information is required to be entered in the special vaccination booklet.
You will be provided with evidence of Yellow Fever Vaccination in the internationally recognised format.
Please remember to bring your passport for this appointment
(Due to a nationwide shortage these booklets may not be available and you may be issued with printed/photocopied versions until the supplies resume)
Attenuated 17D strain Yellow Fever (Live) Vaccine in a freeze dried form.
Manufacturing process?
Virus is propagated in specific pathogen free chick embryos.
A potentially deadly illness presenting in a wide range from hardly any symptoms at all. Some people can fever, muscle pain back pain, headache, nausea and vomiting losing for 3-4 days. In a smaller number of people, they can go onto have severe fever, and failure of multiple organs leading to bleeding, jaundice and can lead to death in about 50% .
There are no specific treatments. Management is mainly supportive.
Having Yellow Fever Vaccine, general mosquito bite prevention strategies.
The disease is present in many South American countries as well as Sub-Saharan African countries. The latest list of Yellow Fever endemic countries can be found here.
It is a micro-organism belonging to Arbovirus (arthropod/insect born) group of viruses belonging to a group called Favivirus. It is carried by day biting mosquitos. Monkeys and humans can remain as reservoirs for the mosquitos to transmit the infection.
Kincumber Travel Clinic is a full fledged service offered at The Surgery Kincumber
A visit to a travel clinic should not be to just get travel vaccines. At Kincumber Travel Clinic, we offer a lot more than just vaccines, and we also provide and administer almost all vaccines including Yellow Fever vaccines. (We are also an Yellow Fever Accredited Centre)
Lets guide you with a Travel Plan (from health perspective)
This is the most important step. The places you are visiting, duration of your travel, season you are planning to go and any potential for communicable diseases. (if you are going to a developing world region in a rainy season, you need to be prepared for transport disruptions, power interruptions, diseases such as cholera). Understand what access you may have for emergency health needs. Sometimes access to healthcare could even be days away.
If you are visiting to the northern hemisphere (most overseas travel) you will be going in the opposite season. For a long Christmas Holiday to Europe, you need to be prepared for winter based diseases such as influenza/Covid, whereas in a tropical region, it could be the time of diseases such as Malaria and dengue.
Start with your medicine cupboard at home. What have you used in the last 6-12 months. Common medicines such as paracetamol (Panadol) and ibuprofen (Nurofen) tablets. Do you use things like deep heat, heat packs, knee/ankle/wrist braces? Do you use (contraceptive) pill? (or condoms). Organise a medicine bag and these should be the first to go inside. These may be available in a country you are visiting, but you could end up half a day trying to find these as well.
For specific health needs there are good websites as well. Australia government, World Health Organisation as well as Center for Disease Control (USA, if available) are some reputed sources.
Make a list of what you want to discuss. We will give you a lot of information as well, but a preparatory list is always helpful. What you need depends on your personal circumstance, but
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which The Surgery Kincumber stands, the Darkinjung people, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, sea and community, and are committed to providing culturally safe and welcoming healthcare for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
The Surgery Kincumber is committed to providing safe, respectful and inclusive healthcare for all our patients, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or intersex status. We welcome LGBTIQ+ and gender diverse individuals and their families, and are committed to ensuring every person who walks through our door is treated with dignity, respect and without judgement.