a life-threatening viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes that causes jaundice, fever, headache, and vomiting [Go to source
A disease transmitted by mosquitoes that causes jaundice, among many other symptoms
An acute infectious disease characterized by jaundice, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, hemorrhages, and a febrile course consisting of two paroxysms. There are two forms of yellow fever: urban, in which the transmission cycle is mosquito; and sylvan, in which the reservoir is wild primates. Also, in sylvan yellow fever, the mosquito will remain infected for life. Except for a few cases in Trinidad in 1954, urban yellow fever has not been reported in North or South America since 1942. Outbreaks do occur in Africa adjacent to rain forests. Yellow fever has not been reported in Asia or eastern coast of Africa. Sylvan yellow fever is enzootic in South America and parts of Africa.
caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
an acute infectious disease that present a major public health threat in endemic zones of Africa and South America where the virus continues to reappear even after long period of quiescence
Serious infectious tropical disease.
Virus disease transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
An acute, often-fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, especially Aledes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice, fever, and protein in the urine. In 1900 Walter Reed and others in Panama found that mosquitoes transmit the disease. Clinicians in the late nineteenth century recognized "specific yellow fever" as being different from "malarious yellow fever." The latter supposedly was a form of malaria with liver involvement but without urine involvement. See epidemics for major outbreaks.
A disease caused by parasites.
An acute viral disease transmitted to man by mosquitoes and characterized by fever, icterus, bradycardia, proteinuria and a bleeding tendency. A RNA virus that multiplies in the cytoplasm of cells; transmitted by arthropods
Yellow fever (also called yellow jack, black vomit or vomito negro in Spanish, or sometimes American Plague) is an acute viral disease. It is an important cause of hemorrhagic illness in many African and South American countries despite existence of an effective vaccine. The yellow in the disease name refers to the jaundice that affects some patients.