Experts say vaccine hesitancy may stem from the disease being less well-known compared to others like malaria.
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00:00It was low in the past two weeks because people were doubting about the vaccine and they thought
00:17why is the government introducing the campaign of yellow fever?
00:21They are supposed to be building immunity, not getting chemicals into their bodies.
00:27So when it gets to children, that's why I was personally called by the school where
00:33my son goes.
00:34I told them I don't want to hear anything to do with mass vaccination.
00:48Yellow fever, though you might talk about it, few people may have seen it, may have
00:52seen a patient of yellow fever, may have lost a patient of yellow fever.
00:58It's not like malaria, almost every household will know what you're talking about.
01:03But yellow fever is not the same, although the threat can be bigger.
01:12So educating the public is even more difficult because if I've not seen the disease, I've
01:21not seen a neighbour with the disease, I've not seen, I don't know, anyone who has died
01:25of the disease, somehow I have the feeling that I'm not a threat.