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Sep 1, 2022 · Abstract. Yellow fever is a zoonotic arbovirosis, the agent of which is transmitted by mosquitoes. In humans, this virus can cause hemorrhagic hepato-nephritis, while mild or inapparent infections are common.
Yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. [3] In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains—particularly in the back—and headaches. [3] Symptoms typically improve within five days. [3]
May 15, 2024 · Key points. Initial symptoms of yellow fever can include fever, chills, severe headache, back pain, general body aches, nausea, vomiting, fatigue (feeling tired), and weakness. Severe symptoms include high fever, yellow skin or eyes (jaundice), bleeding, shock, and organ failure.
Infected mosquitoes transmit the viral disease called yellow fever to people. Symptoms range from mild symptoms like body aches and fever to serious symptoms like organ failure. It can be fatal, but it can also be prevented by getting vaccinated.
Yellow fever is the original viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF), a pansystemic viral sepsis with viraemia, fever, prostration, hepatic, renal, and myocardial injury, haemorrhage, shock, and high lethality. In recent years, popular attention has been drawn to another VHF—Ebola—as the most frightening emerging infection of humankind.
- Thomas P Monath
- 2001
Feb 27, 2022 · Yellow fever (YF) is a mosquito-borne viral illness caused by an arbovirus of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, encompassing positive-single-stranded RNA viruses. The virus was isolated for the first time in 1927 in a male patient [1]. Transmission is primarily by mosquitoes [2].
May 10, 2017 · Clinically, many people infected with YFV are asymptomatic. 1, 3 Others develop symptoms including sudden fever, chills, headache, low back pain, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, and/or fatigue after an incubation period of approximately 3 to 6 days. 1, 3 Most with YFV disease improve within 3 to 4 days. 3 However, roughly 15% go on to develop a more ...
