Causes of Yellow fever

Contents

Yellow fever: Introduction
Primary Cause of Yellow fever
Risk factors
Complication causes
Related cause information

Primary Cause of Yellow fever

The primary cause of Yellow fever is the result:

of an infectious agent.

Yellow fever Causes: Risk Factors

The following conditions have been cited in various sources as potentially causal risk factors related to Yellow fever:

Yellow fever: Geographical Location Profile

Geographical Profile for Yellow fever: Tropical regions of Africa, Central America and South America....more »

Geographical Profile for Yellow fever: Yellow fever occurs only in Africa and South America . In South... (Source: excerpt from Yellow Fever—Disease and Vaccine: DVBID) ...more »

Yellow fever: Related Medical Conditions

To research the causes of Yellow fever, consider researching the causes of these these diseases that may be similar, or associated with Yellow fever:

Flavivirus
Aedes aegypti
Group B arbovirus
Theiler
Attenuated 17D vaccine
Yellow fever
Flaviviral infections
Dengue
Japanese encephalitis
Tick-borne encephalitis
CNS infection
Hemorrhagic fever
Acute febrile illnesses with arthropathy

Yellow fever: Causes and Types

Causes of Types of Yellow fever: Review the cause informationfor the various types of Yellow fever:

Urban yellow fever - usually spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Jungle yellow fever - spread by various jungle mosquitos.
more types...»

Causes of Broader Categories of Yellow fever: Review the causal information about the various more general categories of medical conditions:

Yellow fever as a complication of other conditions:

Other conditions that might have Yellow fever as a complication may, potentially, be an underlying cause of Yellow fever. Our database lists the following as having Yellow fever as a complication of that condition:

Mosquito bite

What causes Yellow fever?

Article excerpts about the causes of Yellow fever:
All flaviviruses (e.g., West Nile [shown here], St. Louis encephalitis, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, tick-borne encephalitis, yellow fever, etc.) share a common size (40-60nm), symmetry (enveloped, icosahedral nucleocapsid), nucleic acid (positive-sense, single stranded RNA approximately 10,000-11,000 bases), and appearance in the electron microscope. Therefore, images of West Nile virus are representative for this group of viruses. (Source: excerpt from West Nile Virus Virology: DVBID)