Caution! False yellow fever recipe is shared on WhatsApp

If you are looking for more information against yellow fever, look for official government channels or media outlets. A new stream of WhatsApp is touting a prescription for home remedies for fever, but it is false. As the G1 notes, the fake message (which also comes in audios and video) has been viewed over 500, 000 times.

The recipe that is placed there has no effect, no validity for yellow fever, nor as immunization, nothing

"The message is bullshit. It has no truth in what the person who wrote it says. Firstly, the vaccine is an effective and safe vaccine. Adverse events that happen are extremely rare. The vaccine is the best way to combat the Other ways to combat it are those that reduce man's contact with the mosquito, ie repellent, mosquito nets, which are additional protections.The recipe that is placed there has no effect, no validity for yellow fever, nor as immunization., nothing ", commented to G1 the infectious doctor and researcher of Fiocruz André Siqueira, member of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (SBMT).

Doctor André Siqueira also commented on the adverse effects that are commented on in the current. "There are adverse effects to any treatment, but they are extremely rare. We expect one serious adverse event for every 400, 000 doses, so it's something that happens 0.0000025% of the time. Extremely rare, it's not something that happens, as it is. Just as you take dipyrone may have some adverse event, so does the vaccine, but they are rare, have all the guidelines, health professionals are alert to the contraindications of the vaccine and it is the best way to protect ".

• Below you see the fake message.

Caution! False yellow fever recipe is shared on WhatsApp via TecMundo