"Hans-Georg Michna" wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:23:21 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:

Although the vaccine is not required, the WHO considers Kenya one of their
'at risk' countries**, and recommends a vaccine for anyone who enters
Kenya
and goes outside the urban area****, considering that there was a serious,
and unexpected, outbreak as recently as Sept 92-March 93***.

Riverman,

so how many tourists died from yellow fever then?

Probably none, and we still have no reasonable statistics at
all. It's all wild guesswork, except for the doctors and the
pharma industry. For them it works out well. (:-)

From
http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.a...=Travel+Advice
Yellow fever in expatriates and travelers to Africa and South America has
been rare since the introduction of routine vaccination after World War II.
Since that time, eleven recorded cases have been published, including two
fatal cases in 1996 in unvaccinated American and Swiss tourists who acquired
the infection in Brazil and died after returning home. An additional fatal
case was reported in an unvaccinated Californian who had traveled in the
rainforests of Venezuela with six others; five of these six companions had
been vaccinated against yellow fever. A tenth (fatal) case occurred in a
German tourist in 1999. An eleventh fatal case occurred in November 2001 in
an unvaccinated Begian tourist exposed to yellow fever in the Gambia. A
previously healthy Texan who traveled with a group to fish on the Rio Negro
in rural Brazil was also reported to have died with yellow fever on March
14, 2002; the patient had not been vaccinated against yellow fever. These
events emphasize the risk of exposure in the endemic zone, whe

a.. The virus may circulate silently between nonhuman primates and
mosquitoes
b.. Surveillance for human disease is minimal
c.. The indigenous population may be protected by vaccination.
--riverman
Google under "yellow fever tourist deaths"