A study was undertaken to assess the
effectiveness of a
yellow fever vaccination campaign , which had been conducted in
Trinidad ,
West Indies from November, 1978 through 1979. Evaluative tools consisted of (i) an
interview survey in a randomly selected sample of two hundred households, to determine
immunization coverage and (ii) a serological study of 232
vaccines to ascertain
protection conferred through use of 17D
yellow fever vaccination . Results of the
household survey indicate that approximately 12.53 per cent of the 1149
persons interviewed had not been vaccinated against
yellow fever . In most instances, no substantial reasons could be advanced by
respondents for non-
immunization . Based on the performance of 13 plaque reduction
neutralization tests , all but one of the 232 sera examined from people with a
history of
immunization posessess adequate
humoral immunity to
yellow fever . This study has, therefore, shown that the
vaccination campaign , under
review , was successful in achieving satisfactory
protection of immunized
persons , and in drastically reducing the number of susceptibles within the
population .