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The agent is a flavivirus, an arbovirus of group B. The virus multiplies in mosquitoes, which remain infectious for life.
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Is yellow fever viral?
yellow fever is caused by a virus
Is there an antibiotic for yellow fever?
There is no single pill to cure typhoid and yellow fever. You have a pill to cure typhoid but no pill to cure the yellow fever. Yellow fever is a viral infection and there is no specific pill for the same.
What viral hemorrhagic fever can be prevented with the adminstration of a licensed vaccine?
Yellow fever
What viral hemorrhagic fever can be prevented with the administration of a licensed vaccine?
yellow fever
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 is the name of virus which causes yellow fever?
flavivirus. There are at least members of this group of virus, two in Africa and two in South America. Yellow fever is a viral disease that is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Illness ranges in severity from an influenza-like syndrome to severe hepatitis and hemorrhagic fever. Yellow fever virus (YFV) is maintained in nature by mosquito-borne transmission between nonhuman primates. Transmission by mosquitoes from one human to another occurs during epidemics of "urban yellow fever."
Do fungi cause the diseases yellow fever encephalitis and measles in humans?
Fungi can be one cause of encephalitis. Both yellow fever and measles are viral.
Treatments for yellow fever?
Yellow fever is an acute viral disease that produces symptoms such as fever, loss of appetite and nausea. Treatments for yellow fever are reportedly ineffective, so patients are usually hospitalized and may even be placed in intensive care.
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.
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.
What is yellow fever bacteria name?
yellow fever is caused by avirus not a bacteria
How is yellow fever virus related to biology?
Yellow fever is a viral disease, caused by the eponymous yellow fever virus. It affects primates and humans as hosts, and is transmitted primarily by mosquitoes as vectors.The disease is controlled by limiting the population of mosquitoes in endemic regions.
