Football fans must be vaccinated against Yellow Fever if travelling through Kenya airports
25 May 2010
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa has highlighted that football fans travelling from the UK to South Africa via Nairobi, Kenya for the FIFA World Cup in June 2010, must show proof of Yellow Fever vaccination on arrival, even if transitting through the Nairobi airport despite there being no risk of Yellow Fever in South Africa.
The World Health Organisation considers Kenya a country with risk of Yellow Fever and under International Health Regulations (2005), an International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis against Yellow Fever must be shown on entry to South Africa from Kenya.
For the Yellow Fever vaccine and certificate to be valid this injection should be given 10 days prior to travel.
Yellow Fever is a mosquito borne disease, in which if not vaccinated 60% of people die, which is why the South African authorities are determined that it should not pass into the country.
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