Another possible side effect is an infection of the nervous system, which occurs in one in 200, 000 to 300, 000 cases, causing yellow fever vaccine-associated neurotropic disease, which can lead to meningoencephalitis and is fatal in less than 5 % of cases.
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A paper presented at the conference by Dr . Martin Cetron of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and associates reported on research, not yet complete, into the deaths of three people _ aged 63, 67 and 79 _ who had received yellow fever vaccine.
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Theiler was the youngest daughter of Sir Arnold Theiler, founder and first director of the Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, and his wife, Emma Sophie Jegge; She was a sister of virologist Max Theiler, who was awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the yellow fever vaccine.
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On 20 July, the DR Congo government launched a campaign to deliver 1 million doses of yellow fever vaccine over 10 days . In August, the WHO with partners including M�decins sans Fronti�res, International Federation of the Red Cross and UNICEF launched another campaign to vaccinate more than 14 million people in Angola and DR Congo.
