Yellow fever is a viral disease that is spread to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes. The symptoms range from mild fever-like aches and pains to severe liver disease with bleeding, often ...

Yellow fever outbreaks in recent years and subsequent vaccine shortages have highlighted a need for updated shots that can be produced more rapidly. To help speed production, an investigational ...

A next-generation, live-attenuated yellow fever vaccine, vYF, was developed in Vero cells to improve vaccine supply and availability. The safety of and immune response to vYF as compared with those of ...

Systematic review finds lifelong immunity from a single yellow fever vaccine, with rare cases of breakthrough infections. Study: Yellow fever breakthrough infections after yellow fever vaccination: a ...

Researchers show how specific immune cells are activated by the vaccine - an important starting point for the development of new vaccines. The yellow fever vaccination using the live-attenuated YF17D ...