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Yellow fever: Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted between humans by a mosquito. Yellow fever is a very rare cause of illness in travelers, but most countries ... more about 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. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Yellow fever is available below.
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Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted between humans by a mosquito. Yellow fever is a very rare cause of illness in travelers, but most countries have regulations and requirements for yellow fever vaccination that must be met prior to entering the country. (Source: excerpt from Yellow Fever—Disease and Vaccine: DVBID)
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)
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)
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