article_snippet.sent: BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabantspent two years in and out of mental institutions after a yellow fever vaccine .
article_snippet.sent: When BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabant Malcolm Brabant walked into a clinic one afternoon to have a yellow fever vaccine, BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabant was warned the possible side-effects could be dizzy spells and a headache.
article_snippet.sent: a yellow fever vaccine fried my brain.'
article_snippet.sent: But BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabant believes the yellow fever vaccine - available in High Street vaccination clinics, GP surgeries and even Boots - could have dangerous side-effects that affect more people than previously thought.
article_snippet.sent: Since its invention in 1951, more than 540 million doses of a yellow fever vaccine have been given.
article_snippet.sent: Yellow fever is a serious viral infection spread by mosquito bites.
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm believes the yellow fever vaccine could have dangerous side-effects .
article_snippet.sent: the yellow fever vaccine managed to lower Malcolm temperature.
article_snippet.sent: The NHS says that up to three in ten people who are immunised with the yellow fever vaccine suffer a mild headache, muscle aches, mild fever or soreness at the injection site - and that these symptoms occur because your immune system is trying to fight the small dose of yellow fever you have been injected with.
article_snippet.sent: It's thought that far fewer people, four in a million, suffer more serious psychotic or neurological reactions, mainly unconnected to the symptoms of yellow fever itself.
article_snippet.sent: One of those is former Royal Naval Commander Graham Beard, who is convinced the jab, which he had in July 1999, ruined he health.
article_snippet.sent: Graham always mentioned to specialists that Graham symptoms seemed to have begun after Graham had the yellow fever jab and, consequently, Graham has been advised by medical professionals
article_snippet.sent: As long ago as 2005, Dr Thomas Monath, a former Harvard public health professor and world expert on yellow fever, confirmed that a vaccine can cause 'really severe and significant adverse events'.
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm told Good Health: 'While we should not overlook the 60 years of wide use of yellow fever vaccine, with a remarkable record of safety and effective prevention of this terrible disease, rare and unusual adverse events temporally associated with vaccination may occur.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman told Good Health that the company takes reports of adverse events 'very seriously' and ensures the company are investigated promptly, but 'after carefully examining all the medical information that has been disclosed to us up to April 2013, us have been unable to establish any evidence for a causal relationship between the administration of the yellow fever vaccine Stamaril and Mr Brabant's reported medical condition. '
highlights_snippet.sent: BBC foreign correspondent Malcolm Brabant had a yellow fever vaccine .
  