Yellow Fever

By,Maya and Alanna Salvatore

What is Yellow Fever…

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:

– 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…

– 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 – High fever– Vomiting– Jaundice– Bleeding – Coma

Treatments for Yellow Fever…• 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:

– 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…

• 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

Works Cited

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