Yellow Fever

By: James Love

Where it began

• The first recorded case of the epidemic is from Yucatan in 1648

Where do you get it

• From the bite of a infected female mosquito

Symptoms

• Fever, chills, headache, backache, muscle ache, nausea, exhaustion

• Then the symptoms lessen for a while

• The organs start to shut down and your skin and eyes start to turn yellow

Headache Nausea

how it is spread

• Yellow Fever can not be transmitted person to person like many other diseases. It requires a vector like a mosquito to spread it.

who can be infected

• Anybody who hasn’t had it before unless they have had there vaccination

• It is mostly gone from the world except in a few select areas

treatment

• When someone has it there symptoms are treated by the doctor

• They have a vaccine that has a 95% chance of making you immune to the disease

length of illness

• There are 5 stages to yellow fever (incubation, invasion, remission, intoxication, and convalescence)

• Incubation lasts about three to six days

• Invasion lasts about two to five days

• Remission lasts several hours to several days

• Intoxication lasts about three to nine days

• Convalescence lasts about a day

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