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What is Aedes aegypt?
It is the yellow fever mosquito. Aedes aegypti is a mosquito that can spread the dengue fever, Chikungunya yellow fever viruses and other diseases.
How is yellow fever spred?
Type your answer here... Yellow fever is found only in parts of South America and Africa. People get yellow fever from the bite of an infected female mosquito. The mosquito injects the yellow fever virus into the bite. Symptoms start 3 to 6 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. Yellow fever is diagnosed by a blood test.
What is the bug that spreads yellow fever?
mosquito
Can you get yellow fever from from animal bites?
No, you can get yellow fever only from the bit of an infected female mosquito.
How is yellow fever harmful?
Yellow Fever us a disease that is cause by getting bitten by a mosquito infected with the Fever it self.
What Cause's yellow fever?
When you get bit by the mosquito that transmits it. (you can find this mosquito in the Amazon).
Yellow fever is spread by the biting of which insect?
Mosquito
How do people get Fever?
"Yellow fever" is caused by the Flavivirus, a virus which is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. humans and monkeys are most commonly affected. When one of these mosquitoes bites someone who is already infected with yellow fever, the virus goes into the mosquito's bloodstream and moves around its body before it settles in the mosquito's salivary glands. Because it now resides in the salivary glands, when this mosquito bites another human or monkey, the virus then goes into that person or monkey's bloodstream, causing Yellow fever.
How is yellow fever acquired?
You get yellow fever from the bite of an infected female mosquito. The mosquito injects the yellow fever virus into the bite. It was most common in the 1850s-1950s. After mid-20th century, the availability of effective pesticides and of a vaccine greatly reduced the incidence of Yellow Fever.
Who found that mosquito's spread yellow fever?
Walter Reed.
What type of mosquito is the carrier of yellow fever?
Aedes aegypti
How can you prevent yellow fever?
You prevent yellow fever by preventing people from being bitten by an infected mosquito. You can do this to a degree by use of mosquito netting, mosquito repellent, etc. Historically, it was most effectively done by eliminating mosquito breeding ponds, thus reducing or eliminating the population of mosquitoes available to be infected. An effective vaccine against yellow fever is also available.
