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Yellow Fever is a virus. Viruses reproduce by injecting their RNA into cells. The cells reproduce the viruses not knowing the virus is bad.
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∙ 10y agoA virus causes yellow fever. It is carried by mosquitoes and primates. It can affect the liver and cause jaundice where the skin become yellow as well as the whites of the eyes. Hence the name. It can cause profuse hemorrhage and it is classified as a hemorrhagic fever. There is a vaccine. It still is seen in Africa.
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How can yellow fever be transmitted?
with pineapples
What does yellow fever damage?
Transmitted by mosquitoes, yellow fever is a tropical viral disease that damages the liver and kidneys by causing fever and jaundice. Yellow fever is often fatal.
What did reed Walter do?
he found out that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes.
What bacteria causes yellow fever?
Yellow Fever and Dengue fever are caused by viruses in the Flavivirus family. They are related but they are very different. Dengue viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes from infected people to healthy people. Yellow fever virus is also transmitted by mosquitoes from sick people to healthy people but may also be transmitted from infected monkeys to healthy monkeys or people.
What type of germ is yellow fever?
Yellow fever is a disease spread by the bite of a female mosquito. The virus that causes Yellow Fever is an RNA virus of the genus Flavivirus.
Malaria yellow fever and encephalitis are transmitted by the male mosquito?
false
Malaria yellow fever and encephalitis are often transmitted by the male mosquito?
fales
Are yellow fever and typhoid the same disease?
No. Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella bacteria in contaminated food and water, whereas yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes.
How does a person get yellow fever?
how
What are some fun facts about yellow fever?
1. The fever turned people's eyes yellow 2. People threw up blood 3. It was transmitted by a mosquito
Is yellow fever a bacterial viral or parasitic disease?
It cannot spread like a virus and yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of the female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti.
Where does Fever come from?
yellow fever originates from Africa in monkeys. the virus is transmitted to people when a monkey carrying the virus is bitten by a female mosquito and that mosquito bites a person, transferring the virus over. the virus can not be spread from person to person by germs. only by mosquitos or something like that.
