custom wordpress theme and yoast seo injecting text in body

I have created a custom PHP Wordpress theme using HTML5Blank Template and Advanced Custom Fields, however, whenever the Yoast SEO plugin is activated it injects view article twice as text in the top of the page. The behaviour seems odd but it doesn't inject it into the HTML head but the body. Has anyone experienced this issue and have any fixes for it? I am forced to disable the plugin until I can patch this issue as it effects all my pages.