Yellow+Fever-John+and+James

Johnny D and James Seward toc

__YELLOW FEVER__

 * Yellow fever is also known as yellow Jack, Black vomit, or American plague, Urban yellow Fever, and Jungle Yellow fever.
 * Coquillettidia fuscopennata is the scientific name for Yellow fever, scary isn't it?
 * Yellow Fever is part of the [|Flaviviridae] family

__History/Background__

 * Yellow fever was was thought to ravaged through Europe as early as the year 541 A.D.
 * There was a epidemic in medieval Brittan in 664.
 * [|Carlos Finlay], from Cuba found that this virus was transmitted through mosquitoes rather than human contact in 1881.
 * [|Walter Reed] later determined Carlos' theory was true.

__Symptoms__

 * Fever
 * Headache
 * Vomiting
 * Backache
 * The pulse slows and weakens
 * Bleeding of the gums and bloody urine occur.
 * [|Jaundice] may also occur

__Remedies__

 * There is no specific treatment for yellow fever. However, people traveling to areas where yellow fever may exist should be immunized.

__Statistics__

 * 0 new cases of yellow fever per 100,000 population was notified in Australia 2002
 * 0 new cases of yellow fever was notified in Australia 2002
 * 15 registered cases of Yellow fever in Bolivia 2002
 * 15 registered cases of Yellow fever in Brazil 2002
 * 19 registered cases of Yellow fever in Colombia 2002
 * 35 registered cases of Yellow fever in Peru 2002
 * 3 registered cases of Yellow fever in Venezuela 2002

__How the Human body "fights" it__
Most of the people affected by Yellow Fever don't have any long term problems. The death rate of yellow fever is between 5 and 10 percent.

__Infection details in Humans__

 * The symptoms listed in the above section will not if the infectious area(s) are treated within 3-6 days of being bitten by the infectious mosquito.

Citations
[|Background info] [|Statistics] [|Symptoms] [|Infection details in Humans]