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Yellow Fever
By,
Maya and Alanna Salvatore
What is Yellow Fever…
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Yellow fever is caused by a virus carried by mosquitoes. You
can catch this disease if you are bitten by a mosquito
infected with this virus
Disease organisms cause fever during infection
Large assortment of viral fever disease found in animals
and humans
Vital fever- spread by agent that transfer the virus from on
host to another
Viral infection:
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Microorganisms called viruses
Particles replicate within another organism
No cell structure
Don’t posses most characteristics of being alive
Symptoms for Yellow Fever…
• You get infected within a week of the mosquito
bite
• Some symptoms include…
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Headache
Muscle pain
Backache
Weakness
Nausea
Vomiting
Sudden fever
• some people experience a short period when
symptoms disappear
• Then 2nd phase of illness can come – the toxic
phase
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High fever
Vomiting
Jaundice
Bleeding
Coma
Treatments for Yellow Fever…
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No exact cure for Yellow fever
Therapies
Herbal remedies
Spiritual rituals to get rid of the disease
Bed rest, water, and food help
A willow bark (aspirin) and quinine reduce fever
Helpful ways that won’t positively dispose of:
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Silver filtrate
Lead
Acetate
Iron
Jamaican rum
Antipyrine
Tincture aconiti
Syrup aurant
Sulfur
Ergot
Rhubarb juice
How Yellow Fever is spread…
• The yellow fever virus is not contagious
• It is carried by infected mosquitoes which bite
humans or monkeys, which get infected
• The mosquitoes can also pass the virus via
infected eggs
• There are 3 main transition cycles
– Jungle
– Intermediate
– Urban
Who is likely to get Yellow Fever…
• Monkeys and humans mainly get
infected
• Since the virus is transmitted by
mosquitoes, the virus mostly thrives
were mosquiots thrive
– Tropical places
– Wet, humid, hot places
• South America and parts of Africa
mainly
• people of all ages and genders are
susceptible to the virus
Map 2.1 Countries at risk of yellow fever
and countries that have reported at
least one outbreak of yellow fever,
1985-1999
History of Yellow Fever…
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Originated in Africa
It was brought to America through slave trade in ships
Outbreaks have occurred throughout history
Outbreaks in America
– The first outbreak was on the Yucatan peninsula during
17th century
– Also in the 18th century New England and north American
port cities in the 18th century
• 1/10 of philidelphias polulation was lost in 1793 yellow fever
epidemic
– Last was New Orleans in 1905
Current event on Yellow Fever…
• Yellow fever has killed 164 people over the last
three months in Sudan's Darfur
• There have been 677 suspected case
• 3 month period in 2012- September - December
• almost half the yellow fever cases were in people
between the ages of 15 and 30, it said, and about
one/fourth were children aged five to 15.
• This impacted the public because many people
were later vaccinated and during the outbreak
hospitals were full
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