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Lydia Winnicka1, Amirahwaty Abdullah1, Tsujung Yang1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, Pennsylvania.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
|January 9, 2018
Abstract:
We present a case of an unvaccinated traveler who traveled from New York to Peru and contracted yellow fever. He likely acquired the infection while visiting the Amazon River, with a point of exit of Lima, Peru. Our case illustrates the dramatic course that yellow fever may take, as well as the importance of pretravel vaccination.
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