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History of seizures: epilepsy. i healed epilepsy & am healthy after 3 years. need to get yellow fever vacc for travels to ghana. is yf vacc safe 4 me?
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Likely yes: Hi, more than likely it should be ok. However, you should talk to your doctor about this. Overall this depends on what type of epilepsy you have. If it is epilepsy of unknown cause and is not tied to fevers you should be ok, but there are some epilepsy syndromes that get worse with infections and fever. These typical happen in kids and continue throughout life.
Answered 11/28/2017
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