Protecting travellers from yellow fever often requires referral for vaccination

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Protecting travellers from yellow fever often requires referral for vaccination

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Mosquitoes that spread yellow fever are found throughout most of the tropics and subtropics

Travel Medicine: For travellers with an itinerary that puts them at risk of infection with yellow fever or requires them to have proof of yellow fever vaccination, it is important to get the pretravel work-up right

Yellow fever, a mosquito-borne virus, occurs in parts of South America and sub-Saharan Africa, both popular destinations for New Zealand travellers