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CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
Volume 183, Issue 4, Pages E243-E245Publisher
CMA-CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.100619
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- Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel
- Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety of the World Health Organization
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The 17D yellow fever vaccine is a live-virus vaccine that has been in use since the 1940s. The incidence of encephalitis after yellow fever vaccination among young infants is much higher than among children older than nine months of age. Until recently, avoidance of vaccination by breastfeeding women who have received yellow fever vaccine had been based on theoretical grounds only. We report the probable transmission of vaccine strain of yellow fever virus from a mother to her infant through breastfeeding.
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