i am currently on Etanercept injections , i am hopefully going to Kenya on a Safari but dont know what to do about Yellow Fever injections,

[mazg]

can anyone offer any advice ,i have contacted my Rheumatology nurse and waiting for reply , just wondered if anyone had any advice.

[Paula-C]

I've just googled it to check and it's seems it's a live vaccination and you can't have a live vaccine when on anti tnfs.

[TheMarfs]

The NHS guidance is here: nhs.uk/conditions/yellow-fe...

I think this is definitely one for your RA team and a specialist travel clinic to advise further…

[bpeal1]

There was another post about this recently so might be worth searching for it.

However, this is definitely a question for the professionals. We looked briefly into when my daughter was considering going to Uganda on a school trip (she was on Entenercept at the time). If you can’t have the yellow fever vaccine for medical reasons you should be able to get an exemption certificate. In the end my daughter decided not ti go so we didn’t investigate further.

[AgedCrone]

It depends very much the type of Safari you are going on…If you are only going to visit the smaller game parks around Nairobi & going back to a hotel to sleep ……that is far less risky than actually camping out in an actual game park.

But you should wait to get your rheumy team’s advice.

You can look up on line the prevalence of YF in different areas of Kenya at the present time. I visited Nairobi many times pre RA..& never knew anybody who contracted YF…but we always stayed overnight in Nairobi….back then you had to have the vaccination every 10 years.