OUCH!!!

Back at the CF Med clinic.....

5 needles and some more blood work!

All 5 needles given within 2 minutes..... I have to admit.. I had to recline in the chair for a few minutes...

I am now inoculated against Yellow Fever, Hep A plus a bunch of other stuff....

It was interesting to learn that the Yellow Fever shot is a Live agent, has to be administered by a Dr and has a habit of sending the patient into Anaphlatic Shock!

Yellow fever (YF) is a zoonotic hemorrhagic fever caused by a flavivirus transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Worldwide, 90% of YF cases occur in Africa. Symptoms can range from flu-like symptoms to gastrointestinal bleeding, organ failure and death. The disease gets its name from the yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice) that occurs when the virus attacks a patient’s liver. The death rate from yellow fever can be as high as 30 per cent. Yellow fever is transmitted to humans through daytime-biting mosquitoes—mainly the Aedes aegypti and Haemagogus species.