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Yellow Fever

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

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Yellow Fever

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  1. Yellow Fever By: James Love

  2. Where it began • The first recorded case of the epidemic is from Yucatan in 1648

  3. Where do you get it • From the bite of a infected female mosquito

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Bibliography • "Yellow Fever." faqs.org. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 28 Sep. 2008. <http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/0/Yellow-fever.html>. • "mosquito clip art." usf.edu. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 28 Sep. 2009. <http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/2200/2277/mosquito_2.htm>. • "Yellow Fever Virus picture." usf.edu. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Nov. 2009. <http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/2200/2277/mosquito_2.htm>. • "Headache and Migrane." pain-free.eu. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Jan. 2009. <http://www.pain-free.eu/Headache%20&%20Migraine>.

  10. Bibliography (continued) purdue.edu. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Jan. 2009. <http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj/FLClipart/Medical.html>. • "Human Immunodeficiency Virus." stanford.edu. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 10 Jan. 2009. <http://www.stanford.edu/~rabriggs/hiv/hiv.html>. • "Mosquito Diseases." virginia.edu. 14 Mar. 2010. Web. 30 Sep. 2005. <http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/reflections/summer2008/mosquito_diseases.html>.

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