Yellow Fever

Yellow fever is a viral disease, which is spread by the bite of a mosquito. The geographical distribution of yellow fever is confined to Equatorial Africa and South America. Strangely yellow fever is unknown in Asia despite the presence of mosquitoes capable of spreading the virus.

Nevertheless in general, all travellers going to an endemic area require a yellow fever vaccination certificate and travellers going to some parts of Asia from an endemic region will also require a certificate.Please refr to list of countries.

Manifestation: The disease can have three different presentations:

Subclinical, without any symptoms.

2. Flu-like disease with:

Fever
Muscle pain
Head-ache
Nausea
Vomiting
Recovery

Severe fever with death in a few days with kidney failure, liver failure and haemorrhage.

Diagnose and treatment: No curative treatment is available. Overall about 5% of patients die. Those who recover do so completely and are immune thereafter.

Vaccination: Vaccine against yellow fever is available and effective. This vaccine is recommended before travelling to several countries.

Prevent yellow fever by:

Vaccination
Avoid mosquito bites by remaining in well screened areas
Avoid mosquito bites by remaining in air-conditioned areas.
Use mosquito repellents on skin and clothing
Bring aerosol insecticides to use indoors
Use bednets

Yellow Fever Resource:

Dengue virus tetra-epitope peptide expressed in lettuce chloroplasts for potential use in dengue diagnosis.

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

The estimated mortality impact of vaccinations forecast to be administered during 2011-2020 in 73 countries supported by the GAVI Alliance.

Vaccine

A simple, inexpensive, robust and sensitive dot-blot assay for equal detection of the nonstructural-1 glycoprotein of all dengue virus serotypes.

Virol J

Adaptation of yellow fever virus 17D to Vero cells is associated with mutations in structural and non-structural protein genes.

Virus Res

Chemical composition, antifungal and insecticidal activities of hedychium essential oils.

Molecules

Family compliance with counseling for children traveling to the tropics.

J Travel Med

Species composition and population dynamics of Aedes mosquitoes, potential vectors of arboviruses, at the container terminal of the autonomous port of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Parasite

Unhealthiness, disease, and immigration: german views of Brazil.

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos

Safety and immunogenicity of yellow fever 17D vaccine in adults receiving systemic corticosteroid therapy: An observational cohort study.

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)

Administration of Yellow Fever Vaccine in Patients with Egg Allergy.

Int Arch Allergy Immunol

Development and evaluation of loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Sudan.

J Virol Methods

Hot temperatures can force delayed mosquito outbreaks via sequential changes in Aedes aegypti demographic parameters in autocorrelated environments.

Acta Trop

Proteomic Biomarkers for Ageing the Mosquito Aedes aegypti to Determine Risk of Pathogen Transmission.

PLoS One

The NUITM-KEMRI P3 Laboratory in Kenya: Establishment, Features, Operation and Maintenance.

Trop Med Health

Recombinant Yellow Fever Viruses Elicit CD8(+) T Cell Responses and Protective Immunity against Trypanosoma cruzi.

PLoS One

Fever versus fever: The role of host and vector susceptibility and interspecific competition in shaping the current and future distributions of the sylvatic cycles of dengue virus and yellow fever virus.

Infect Genet Evol

Phylogeographic reconstruction of african yellow Fever virus isolates indicates recent simultaneous dispersal into East and west Africa.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Characterization of a novel flavivirus isolated from Culex (Melanoconion) ocossa mosquitoes from Iquitos, Peru.

J Gen Virol

Comparative study on in vitro activities of citral, limonene and essential oils from Lippia citriodora and L. alba on yellow fever virus.

Nat Prod Commun

Vaccine Adverse Events Reported during the First Ten Years (1998-2008) after Introduction in the State of Rondonia, Brazil.

Biomed Res Int

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