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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
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>.
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>.