NO DRUG THERAPY IN PRIMARY CARE (RECOGNITION & REFERRAL)
Mosquito-borne viral haemorrhagic fever endemic to parts of Africa and South America, not Egypt. In practice the primary-care task connected to this code is travel medicine - Egypt requires proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers arriving from endemic countries - rather than treating the disease itself. - Refer
Children follow the same pathway: recognise and refer. No primary-care medicine is implied.
No dose - referral pathway, no medicine given in primary care
Mosquito-borne viral haemorrhagic fever endemic to parts of Africa and South America, not Egypt. In practice the primary-care task connected to this code is travel medicine - Egypt requires proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers arriving from endemic countries - rather than treating the disease itself.
- Not endemic in Egypt. Relevant to a returning traveller or an imported case; consider the travel history before anything else.
- No medicine is prescribed for this in primary care - this entry is for recognition and referral. Anything given is decided by the service it is referred to.
- RED FLAG - The toxic phase progresses with DIC, hemorrhage, renal failure, and hepatic failure (ICU admission, 30-50% mortality).
- RED FLAG - Fever with jaundice or bleeding after travel to an endemic country needs urgent referral; do not manage it as a routine viral fever.
- A traveller lacking a valid yellow fever vaccination certificate when required is a travel-clinic or administrative issue, not a clinical one.