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 HeadacheNausea

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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