Stevie babe
Well-known member
Hi All,
Both my wife and I are really wanting to go visit the Pantenal region of Brazil but I have a problem and that is relating to the risk of Yellow fever in that region.
As I understand it Yellow Fever does exist there and is pretty much incurable. So I look up the prospect of taking the correct vaccination but the risk of adverse effects significantly increases with age especially once over the 60 year old threshold. I am now 67.
I think I may have had a Yellow Fever Vaccination back in the late 1980s for a trip to Egypt but that was done privately for work and those records no longer exist so I cannot be sure.
So:-
1/ need I risk going to Pantenal without a vaccination and hope I did indeed have the vaccination in the 80s or
2/ Have the vaccination and hope for no side effects or
3/ Am I over reacting.
(My wife has had the vaccination).
Any advise greatly appreciated especially from those who have actually been to the Pantenal and any medically trained reader.
Thank you
Both my wife and I are really wanting to go visit the Pantenal region of Brazil but I have a problem and that is relating to the risk of Yellow fever in that region.
As I understand it Yellow Fever does exist there and is pretty much incurable. So I look up the prospect of taking the correct vaccination but the risk of adverse effects significantly increases with age especially once over the 60 year old threshold. I am now 67.
I think I may have had a Yellow Fever Vaccination back in the late 1980s for a trip to Egypt but that was done privately for work and those records no longer exist so I cannot be sure.
So:-
1/ need I risk going to Pantenal without a vaccination and hope I did indeed have the vaccination in the 80s or
2/ Have the vaccination and hope for no side effects or
3/ Am I over reacting.
(My wife has had the vaccination).
Any advise greatly appreciated especially from those who have actually been to the Pantenal and any medically trained reader.
Thank you