Yellow Fever

What is Yellow Fever?

Which mosquito causes Yellow

Fever?
What Pathogen causes Yellow
Objectives Fever?
What are the Symptoms of Yellow
Fever?
What are the treatments of Yellow
Fever?
What is Yellow Fever?

Yellow fever is an
The "yellow" in the
acute viral
name refers to the
hemorrhagic disease
jaundice that affects
transmitted by
some patients.
infected mosquitoes.
Which mosquito causes
Yellow Fever?

+Yellow fever virus is

transmitted to people
primarily through the bite of
infected Aedes or
Haemagogus species
mosquitoes.
What Pathogen
causes Yellow
+ Yellow fever (YF) is an African
Fever? mosquito-borne infection of primates. It
is caused by a virus of the Flavivirus
genus of the Flaviviridae family. In its
natural habitat, it is transmitted between
monkeys by forest-dwelling
primatophilic Aedes mosquitoes.
 + Symptoms of yellow fever usually appear
suddenly and may include:
• Fever.
• Headache.

What are the

• Slow heartbeat.
• Yellowish skin (jaundice).

Symptoms of • Vomiting.
• Bleeding from the mucous membranes of the
Yellow Fever? nose and mouth. Gastrointestinal bleeding may
cause the person to vomit blood.
 + There is no specific treatment exists for
yellow fever, which is one reason that
preventative measures such as vaccination
are so important.
+ Supportive treatment is aimed at controlling

What are the the symptoms, and includes:

+ Rest

treatments of + Fluids
+ The use of medicines to help relieve fever
Yellow Fever? and aching.