Yellow Fever: Everything you need to know


Before travelling to anywhere around the world for purposes like visiting siblings or old-time friends or even for the sake of business or vacation, it is advisable to seek professional advice before commencing such journey. 

You may consider yourself lucky or living in a developed country like UK where most diseases you may have read or heard about does not exist due to the health standard here. Most countries around the world have infections and diseases that can easily infect foreigners. The scariest part is that some of these infections may have no cure such as Yellow Fever which we at Touchwood’s Pharmacy vaccinate our patient against as this is the best prevention method so far. 

Yellow fever has been reported to have killed no less than 30,000 people around the world which are mostly tourists because the locals in the areas the infection is prominent are usually vaccinated leaving you the traveller a victim. WHO revealed more than 49 per cent reported cases yearly of the total victims infected and about 891 cases which are mostly travellers.

Yellow fever is spread by a species of mosquitoes which carry the infection by feeding on infected animals in the forest and transmit it by feeding on humans. The disease can also be transmitted by these mosquitoes after feeding on an infected person and later feed on another human mostly a traveller who is naïve of ways the locals keep the mosquitoes off themselves.

How Our Yellow Fever Camberley Protects You

Touchwood’s Pharmacy Camberley clinic branch professional and certified pharmacists will vaccinate you against yellow fever before traveling and also give you drugs to take along with you on your trip such as anti-malaria medication to better protect you from returning home with any infection.

To level your chance of not contracting yellow fever, when you visit our yellow fever Camberley, our experts will offer you practicable advice to prevent being bitten by the mosquito species that could cause this infection.

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