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Yellow Fever Travel Guide

Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes that causes symptoms like fever, jaundice and organ failure, and prevention strategies include preventing mosquito bites through repellent and protective clothing as well as getting vaccinated before traveling to at-risk tropical areas in South America and Africa where the virus is endemic. The yellow fever virus is an arbovirus of the flavivirus genus that can be transmitted between humans and monkeys by mosquitoes and causes a disease with symptoms ranging from mild to severe.

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Yellow Fever Travel Guide

Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes that causes symptoms like fever, jaundice and organ failure, and prevention strategies include preventing mosquito bites through repellent and protective clothing as well as getting vaccinated before traveling to at-risk tropical areas in South America and Africa where the virus is endemic. The yellow fever virus is an arbovirus of the flavivirus genus that can be transmitted between humans and monkeys by mosquitoes and causes a disease with symptoms ranging from mild to severe.

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Physical Prevention

Strategies
Yellow Fever
symptoms

Tayler Ciarasso
Physical symptoms include The number one prevention
sudden onset of fever, chills, strategy is to prevent 11/7/20
severe headache, back pain, mosquito bites.
nausea, vomiting, fatigue
and weakness.

Severe symptoms include


high fever, yellow skin
(Jaundice), bleeding, shock
and organ failure.

Use insect repellent as well


as wearing long sleeves and
Don’t let a
pants bug bite ruin
your trip

Sources:
“Yellow Fever.” Centers for Disease Control
The mortality rate of
those who develop a Get vaccinated before and Prevention, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 15 Jan. 2019,
severe case is 30-60% traveling www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/index.html.

Soteras, Jalil.
Https://Www.who.int/News-Room/Fact-Sh
eets/Detail/Yellow-Fever. WHO/E, 2020.
Diagnosis Risk Groups and
and Geographic Pathogen
Treatment Considerations

Geographic Considerations:
Diagnosis: Blood tests are The virus is found in tropic Yellow Fever virus is an
usually taken to identify virus and subtropic areas in South arbovirus of the flavivirus
or antibodies that someone’s America and Africa. The virus genus and is transmitted
immune system makes against is a very rare cause of illness by mosquitoes, belonging
the viral infection. in U.S. travelers in these areas. to the Aedes and
Haemagogus species

Treatment: There isn’t a


current specific antiviral
drug treatment.

Transmission:

➢ Sylvatic (jungle) - Tropical


Risk Groups: Individuals with rainforests, monkeys
allergies related to eggs, ➢ Intermediate -
There is specific care to treat chicken proteins or gelatin Semi-domestic mosquitoes
liver and kidney failure, should not get the ➢ Urban - Infected people
dehydration and improve fever vaccination. transit virus into high
outcomes density areas

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