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Yellow Fever
Medical Questions » Yellow Fever
| Name: Yellow Fever |
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| A serious tropical liver infection. |
Causes of Yellow Fever
Viral infection transmitted from one person to another by the Aedes mosquito. Occurs only in central Africa, and tropical Central and South America. The incubation period is three to six days. |
Symptoms of Yellow Fever
Vary from vomiting, headache, tiredness, and eye pain in mild cases, to severe generalized body pains, high fevers, bleeding from the gums and intestine, bruising, copious vomiting, delirium, kidney failure and liver failure (which causes yellow skin jaundice). |
Tests for Yellow Fever
Specific blood tests to confirm the diagnosis may not turn positive until a week or two after the symptoms develop, which makes early diagnosis difficult. |
Treatment for Yellow Fever
No effective treatment or cure. The patient must be carefully nursed, given fluids through a drip into a vein, and sedated. A single vaccination gives protection for at least ten years.
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Complications of Yellow Fever of its treatment
Severe constipation. |
Likely Outcome of Yellow Fever
Death through massive internal bleeding and liver failure is common, even in good hospitals. |
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