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<p>As with all vaccines and medicines, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA) closely monitors the safety of Stamaril yellow fever vaccine. The MHRA
takes advice from the Government's independent scientific advisory body, the Commission
on Human Medicines, when evaluating the risks and benefits of medicines and vaccines.</p><p>
</p><p>The Marketing Authorisation Holder for Stamaril, Sanofi Pasteur, has statutory
obligations to continuously monitor the safety, and balance of benefits and risks,
of the vaccine.</p><p> </p><p>The potential risks of Stamaril are described in the
prescribing information, the Summary of Product Characteristics, and the information
for vaccine recipients, the Patient Information Leaflet. A recognised, very rare risk
of Stamaril vaccine is Yellow Fever Vaccine-Associated Neurotropic Disease, known
as YEL-AND. Whilst the symptoms of YEL-AND can include confusion and acute focal neurological
deficits (e.g. affecting motor co-ordination), this is not typically associated with
psychosis or other long-term psychiatric disorders.</p><p> </p><p>Further to other
recent reports of serious suspected adverse reactions in United Kingdom travellers,
the MHRA is in the process of further reviewing the balance of benefits and risks
of Yellow Fever vaccine, which will include an analysis of neuropsychiatric events.</p>
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