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Nordqvist, Christian. "What Is Yellow Fever? What Causes Yellow Fever?" //Medical News Today //. MediLexicon International, 17 Dec. 2009. Web. 22 Aug. 2012. .


 * 1) Yellow fever is a systemic illness that is caused by flavivirus.
 * 2) It rapidly affects the whole body.
 * 3) It causes bleeding in the skin, high fever, and death of cells in liver and kidney.
 * 4) The skin starts to get a yellow color, hence the name of the illness, because of the damage of the liver.
 * 5) Thought to have originated from Africa, and was transferred to South America through the slave trade.
 * 6) Named one of the most dangerous diseases of the 19century.
 * 7) 90% of the 200,00 cases and 30,000 were from Africa.
 * 8) A vaccine was created in the mid 1980's.
 * 9) Jungle Yellow Fever is passed around by jungle mosquitoes and is usually affected by monkeys. A person could be infected if bitten by the misquitoe or biting an infected monkey.
 * 10) Urban Yellow Fever is the spread of Aedes aegypti from an infected monkey or person who bites another person.
 * 11) Symptoms: Diziness, loss of appetite, headache, chills, vomiting, yellowing of the skin, etc.
 * 12) After entering the toxic stage, which only 15% of people do, they gain more symptoms: Vomiting (maybe blood), abdominal pain, tiredness, kidney & lung failure, reoccurring fever, etc.
 * 13) You have a near 40% chance of living after reaching the toxic stage.
 * 14) Infants and elderly people will have the worst reactions to the disease.
 * 15) Plasma transitions are given to replace clot assisting proteins.

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