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THE NIGERIAN VOICE 5
September 2013

New Yellow Fever Card
From 1st October 2013
“Holds Several Security Features”, - Nigerian Health Minister.
Popoola, Sunday O.
The Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said
that the issuance of the yellow
fever vaccination card will be
centralised from Oct. 1. He
made this known at a dinner in
Johannesburg organized by the
Consul-General of Nigeria in
South Africa. The minister said
that only people vaccinated by
health officials will be issued
new yellow fever card which
would be printed solely by the
Federal ministry of health.
“Nigeria is one of the 44
countries that are prone to the
spread of yellow fever, with
some of the countries around
us having reported cases of
outbreak of the fever. Yellow
fever does not exist in Nigeria,
the last incident of yellow fever
was recorded in Jos in 1995,
but `countries such as
Cameroon and Ghana still
have reported cases of yellow
fever outbreak. With some of
our neighbouring countries
having it, even as Nigeria is not
endemic but also has the vector
of yellow fever, so we remain
at risk'' Chukwu said.
Chukwu said it is important for
Nigerians travelling to other
countries that have the vector
to ensure that they are
vaccinated before travelling to
such countries.
“The reason why the U.S. and
U.K did not require
vaccination is because no
vector exists in that country.
But when going to countries
that are no longer endemic but
still have the vector such as
South Africa they expect that
you must be vaccinated,''

He said there is no sense on the
one in a life time vaccination.
``The regulation that we have
in place today requires that
every ten years there must be
vaccination,'' Chukwu said.
According to the minister, the
ministry of health and that of
foreign affairs are working
together to resolve the issue of
yellow fever vaccination.
``We are working with the
ministry of foreign affairs to
solve the problem, but the truth
is that you need yellow fever
vaccination to enter South
Africa, they have every right to
demand for it,'' Chukwu said.
He said the ministry is going
back to centralizing the
issuance of the card due to the
abuse noticed from the current
procedure which allows other
health agencies to issue the
card with attendant abuses.
``It was the former health
m i n i s t e r, P r o f . O l i k o y e
Ransome-Kuti that
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