Hi Tim, and welcome.
I was just reading your posts and you didn't mention Yellow Fever vaccination as well? I thought that one would be mandatory for travel to Africa.
If so you may want to read
Autoimmune Diseases
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 473170, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/473170
Occurrence of Autoimmune Diseases Related to the Vaccine against Yellow Fever
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If not, just ignore.