What is Yellow fever?

Contents

Yellow fever: Introduction
Types of Yellow fever
Prognosis
Complications
Prevalence
Other names for Yellow fever
Who gets Yellow fever?
What causes Yellow fever?
What are the symptoms of Yellow fever?
Can anyone else get Yellow fever?
How is it treated?
Yellow fever: Introduction

What is Yellow fever?

Yellow fever: A viral infection transmitted by mosquito bites which can damage various organs such as the liver, heart, kidney and digestive tract.
Yellow fever: An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus.
Source - Diseases Database
Yellow fever: caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito.
Source - WordNet 2.1

Yellow fever is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Yellow fever, or a subtype of Yellow fever, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Yellow fever: Introduction

Types of Yellow fever:

Types of Yellow fever:

Urban yellow fever - usually spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Jungle yellow fever - spread by various jungle mosquitos.
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Broader types of Yellow fever:

How many people get Yellow fever?

Incidence (annual) of Yellow fever: 1 annual case notified in USA 1999 (MMWR 1999)
Incidence Rate of Yellow fever: approx 1 in 272,000,000 or 0.00% or 1 people in USA [about data]

Who gets Yellow fever?

Geography Profile for Yellow fever: Tropical regions of Africa, Central America and South America.

Geography Profile for Yellow fever: Yellow fever occurs only in Africa and South America . In South America sporadic infections occur almost exclusively in forestry and agricultural workers from occupational exposure in or near forests. (Source: excerpt from Yellow Fever—Disease and Vaccine: DVBID)

How serious is Yellow fever?

Complications of Yellow fever: see complications of Yellow fever

What causes Yellow fever?

Causes of Yellow fever: see causes of Yellow fever
Risk factors for Yellow fever: see risk factors for Yellow fever

What are the symptoms of Yellow fever?

Symptoms of Yellow fever: see symptoms of Yellow fever

Complications of Yellow fever: see complications of Yellow fever

Incubation period for Yellow fever: 3 to 6 days

Can anyone else get Yellow fever?

Contagion of Yellow fever: Mosquito-borne; caught by mosquito bites.
More information: see contagiousness of Yellow fever
Inheritance: see inheritance of Yellow fever